Gisèle Pelicot applauded at court after testifying in mass rape trial

Supporters applauded Gisèle Pelicot, the victim of an alleged mass rape orchestrated by her then-husband, and gave her flowers as she exited the courtroom after taking the stand to testify in the trial. Pelicot’s former husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and drink and invited men to rape her over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan, in Provence.
Gisèle Pelicot told the court in Avignon: ‘It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s will and determination to change society’
Gisèle Pelicot tells mass rape trial ‘it’s not for us to have shame – it’s for them’