For several years, Frenchman Dominique Pelicot coerced his wife Gisèle into being raped and invited other men to assault her. Now, Pelicot has been questioned about new crimes – including a murder – committed in the 90s.
WorldThe Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, who was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment for, among other things, aggravated rape following a series of assaults on his drugged wife, will not appeal the verdict, announces his lawyer.
WorldDominique Pelicot is sentenced to the maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment for, among other things, aggravated rape, announces the court in Avignon. All 51 defendants in the highly publicized French case are deemed guilty, most of them for aggravated rapes.
World20 years in prison has been described as too little. But it is the maximum sentence for rape in France, and therefore Dominique Pelicot is expected to get it when the judges now rule in one of the most talked-about sexual offense cases of all time.
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