Gisèle Pelicot trial sentence, live | Dominique Pelicot, guilty of aggravated rape of his ex-wife

Dominique Pelicot, ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot, has been found guilty of aggravated rape of his wife. This has been established by the Avignon criminal court, which this Thursday announces the sentence of the trial of the 51 accused of having raped Gisèle Pelicot under chemical submission from 2011 to 2020 and dictates the historic sentence, with sentences that can be up to 20 yearsthe maximum penalty in France for aggravated rape that Dominique faces. “There will be a before and after,” said the prosecutor of the Avignon criminal court (southeast of France), Laure Chabaud, on November 27, aware of the global repercussion of this case, which has been followed by nearly 180 media outlets, 86 of them foreigners, especially Spanish. The Prosecutor’s Office requested 650 years in prison for all the accused51 men ranging in age from 27 to 74 years old, from all social classes: firefighters, truck drivers, journalists, nurses, military personnel or also retirees. Dominique Pelicot, 72, faces the maximum sentence of 20 years, as he was the mastermind behind the multiple rapes suffered by the victim.