The French prosecutor’s office has requested between four and 20 years in prison for the 51 defendants in the trial against Dominique Pelicot, who secretly drugged his now ex-wife, Gisèle, and raped her with strangers.
The announcement of these sentences comes two days after the prosecutor requested the maximum sentence of 20 years for Pelicot, 71, the main accused and considered the instigator of the events for a decade.
The least of penalties It has been for Joseph C., 69, who is only accused of sexual assault, while all the others range between 10 and 18 years in prison.
The prosecution has thus requested 10 yearsof prison for eleven defendants, 11 years for two, 12 years for thirteen, 13 years for six, 14 years for six, 15 years for three, 16 years for four, 17 years for three and 18 years for the last, one of the four men who He went to the marital home six times of the Pelicots to rape Gisèle Pelicot. The average sentence for rape in France was 11.1 years in 2022, according to the Ministry of Justice.
When they presented their final arguments on Monday, the two representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office warned that “the absence of consent [de Gisèle Pelicot] could not be ignored by the accused.
The victim, currently 71 years old, has been present at the sentencing hearings, as well as throughout the entire trial, thus seeking raise awareness in society about rape through chemical submission.
This trial has gone around the world due to the number of rapes, but also because of the profile of the accused: they have between 26 and 74 years of agewith occupations that cover a vast range of activities, such as a firefighter or journalist.
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