Gisele Pelicot, the woman at the center of the mass-rape trial that's shocked her own country of France and the world, told her husband in court on Wednesday that she still "did not understand why" he had drugged and raped her for nearly a decade, along with dozens of other men he invited into their home.
You reached the lowest depths of the human soul — but unfortunately, it was you who made that choice. Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging his wife regularly between and so that he and dozens of other men could rape her. The youngest of the other 49 defendants, Joan K. Gisele Pelicot has been revered in France and around the world for insisting the trial be held open to the public - which is not, by default, how sexual assault cases are handled in France.
She said in court Wednesday, according to French newspaper Le Monde , that she wanted the proceedings to be public in the hope that "all women who are victims of rape can say to themselves: 'Madame Pelicot did it, so we can do it.
It's not for us to feel shame — it's for them [sexual attackers]," she said. I never found anything strange about my potatoes," she told the court while reportedly refusing to look at Dominique. Often when it's a football match on TV, I'd let him watch it alone. He brought my ice cream to my bed, where I was. My favorite flavor — raspberry — and I thought: 'How lucky I am.
He's a love. I didn't feel anything. I must have gone under very quickly. I would wake up with my pajamas on," she said, adding that she would sometimes wake up "more tired than usual, but I walk a lot and thought it was that. The trial, which is due to continue until Dec. On Saturday, protesters gathered outside dozens of courts to denounce "rape culture" in France.
