France|A French judge decided to overturn the decision that video footage of the rapes would only be shown to the jury and lawyers.
France a new twist has taken place in the shocking rape trial, when the judge decided to overturn the decision regarding the materials of the earlier trial. About that news BBC.
French Dominique Pélicot‘a is accused of drugging and raping his wife and recruiting unknown men to rape his wife.
The police have found video footage of the actions taken by the man, which was previously decided to be shown only to the lawyers working on the case and the jury.
Now, however, the judge decided that the video material will be shown publicly at the trial of the victim of his actions Gisele Pélicot has wanted to visit the open house.
The woman’s lawyers had appealed to the judge to make the video material public. According to the lawyers, the video should be shown publicly in order to draw attention to the use of drugs in connection with sexual violence.
According to the police, Dominique Pélicot had crushed and mixed sleeping pills and anxiety medications into his wife’s evening meal or wine, as a result of which she had been unconscious when her husband or other accused men raped her.
The videos are important evidence in terms of the case, because with them the police managed to identify 50 men accused of sexual violence. However, 33 men have yet to be identified.
According to the judge, the video material will only be shown in the trial as much as is necessary to “reveal the truth”. The request for this had come from one of the parties to the trial.
The previous decision to limit the showing of the material was based on the fact that it was deemed too disturbing. The showing of the videos was opposed by some of the lawyers of the 50 accused men.
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