Brave Gisèle Pelicot was drugged unconscious and raped by her husband and 50 men he had invited to have sex with her in their small Provencal village in southeastern France.
The 72-year-old retiree should have been the ultimate victim.
Instead, because she waived her anonymity and showed her face to the world during her husband of 50 years’ harrowing trial, Pelicot has become a feminist folk heroine and symbol of hope in France.
“Bravo Madame!” blared the headline of Le Parisien after a French court on Thursday sentenced Dominique Pelicot to a maximum 20 years of imprisonment for drugging and raping Gisèle and allowing other men to rape her while she was knocked out, abuse that lasted nearly a decade.
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