A French judge has reversed a ruling in the trial of a man who is accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over a decade.
Lawyers for Gisèle Pelicot, 72, had earlier appealed against the judge’s initial decision to only show video of the crimes to lawyers and the jury.
She has waived her right to anonymity in the trial, enabling the shocking details of the case to be heard in public.
Her lawyers argued the video should be seen to draw attention to the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. They hailed the latest ruling as a “victory”
“If these same hearings, through their publicity, help prevent other women from having to go through this, then she will find meaning in her suffering,” one of Ms Pelicot’s lawyers, Stéphane Babonneau, said.
What a badass. I have so much respect for the ways she’s been handling this. A real “fuck you” to her abusers. Repeatedly.
Between this and Diddy, hard to believe how far some people take it. No different than serial killers imo.
Be honest: it’s really really different magnitude.
Rape (especially such) is unbelievably horrible.
But death - it’s the final point.
As long as that’s Giséle’s choice, that’s a huge win and I wish her luck with her case. Thats beyond horrifying
I don’t think I’d watch them out of respect, that’s horrifying.
But man, I support the hell out of her throwing this evidence at her attackers full force and women should take strength out of her example.
I truly hope it makes it damn near impossible for any one of these men too get a job ever again.
Imagine if you both have a conviction of rape, and a video of you doing it on public record?
Christ.
Yeah, she waived her right to anonymity, not automatically. She chose to, and it’s her lawyers arguing these videos should be seen by the world. She is willing to give up her privacy like that to show exactly what these monsters will do to defenseless people. Absolute badass.
I respect her right to do this, but I’m not sure what it gains anyone. If anyone, I imagine people will view it for their own gratification.
Gains the same thing Emmett Till’s open casket gained.
Then we should also make clear that anybody who watches them for gratification is a truly evil piece of shit.
Many people delude themselves into thinking they’re good people even when they’re evil, we shouldn’t let them.
Man this lady is brave as fuck
Those weak French, amirite?
Not American so this might be a stupid question, but does anyone actually say that? The French have serious islamophobia issues, but I don’t know anyone who would call them weak.
Yeah, its an American based stereotype AFAIK and the right winger trump types would be the most likely to spout it
At this point it’s entirely a self-referential joke. People bring it up to reference the stereotype itself, not to actually call the French cowards.
You clearly havent seen boomer american FB and X accounts then, theres never a chance they dont get to make fun of the french
The men who raped her were French too, and they outnumber her at least 50 to one, so your low level troll doesn’t even work the way you think it does…
Was “Those weak French, amirite?” trolling, or was it making fun of people who falsely call French people ‘weak’ as a form of nationalistic bigotry?
I read it as the latter. “The French are still weak,” would be clear bigotry, the ‘amirite?’ makes me lean more towards making fun of them.
Of course, we can’t definitively say due to the lack of clear tone in written language.
You’re correct, evidently amirite wasnt sarcastic enough lol
It’s ok, people with actual, functional reading comprehension read it the way you meant it
Those who don’t require an /s, that is lol
Them absolutely rioting over a small increase in retirement age made me feel shame as an American. I love how willing the French are to remind their government of what happens when it gets out of line. Like, “don’t make us break out the guillotines.”
The French are not weak.
Nailed it friend
They might have been steamrolled in back to back world wars, but they used to be a threat to takeover the world.
steamrolled in back to back world wars
The French definitely won WWI, do they not teach history in schools anymore?
No, not really.
They didn’t win WW1, they just lost less hard than Germany.
This is the whole concept of any war of attrition though.
They were in like 3rd place after British and Spanish.
No? The Spain’s heyday was a completely different time period from France and Britain’s, and during the Napoleonic wars France was first place and lost on foreign policy.
depends what time you’re talking about. napoleon fucked shit up.
Which is why the lourve is full of Italian art, apparently
Also internally they’ve had some of the most badass revolutions.
