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            <title><![CDATA[Pelicot does not appeal the rape verdict]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:01:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gisèle Pelicot: Thought of my grandchildren]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Gisèle Pelicot describes the trial as difficult, and says that she thought of her grandchildren. I have fought this battle also with them in mind, she says in a first comment after the verdicts.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:38:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Now the "monster from Avignon" gets his sentence]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[20 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:30:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rape-accused Pelicot praises ex-wife's "courage"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dominique Pelicot, who has acknowledged years of rapes against his former wife Gisèle, asks for forgiveness from his family in his final plea. The judges in the highly publicized case are expected to deliver their verdict on Thursday.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pelicot Memoirs to be Published]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA["And I stopped calling you dad". This is the title of Caroline Darian's memoirs, which will be published in Swedish on January 13 next year. She is the daughter of Dominique Pelicot, who has been called "the monster from Avignon" and is considered one of France's worst sex offenders ever.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prosecutor: Maximum sentence too lenient for Pélicot's husband]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The maximum sentence is 20 years in prison. This is what the prosecution in France is demanding for the main defendant, the husband, in the notorious Pélicot case. But the prosecutor thinks that even the maximum sentence is lenient for such "heinous acts" – and even gets some support from the man's defense attorney.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:43:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Husband Let Men Rape Her: "Will Never Heal"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[One of France's largest rape trials of all time is approaching its end. This week, the final arguments and sentencing demands are expected in the case of Dominique Pélicot, charged with drugging his wife and letting tens of men rape her. This wound will never heal, says 71-year-old Gisèle Pélicot.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 05:00:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More men face trial in mass rape case]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Another group of men is to be questioned in a comprehensive rape case in France, where a man is accused of having drugged his wife and let tens of men assault her. A couple of them claim to have been subjected to abuse themselves.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:02:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pélicot in Court: It's Not the Victim Who Should Be Ashamed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Gisèle Pélicot was drugged and raped over a ten-year period. Her story has sent shockwaves across France and now she has reappeared in court. It's not us who should be ashamed, it's the perpetrators, she says.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:44:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Village is Haunted by Rapes: "It Could be Anyone"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the midst of a southern French idyll, Gisèle Pélicot lived a nightmare. The men who were invited to rape her were almost all from the area – and now little Mazan is being torn apart by mistrust. Who knows who else was involved? It could be anyone, says a villager.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Rapes: "Copycat" Imitated Pélicot]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[71-year-old Dominique Pélicot, on trial for drugging his wife and letting other men rape her, had an impersonator.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Accused Frenchman: "I am a Rapist"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[My wife did not deserve this. The Frenchman Dominique Pélicot, who is accused of having drugged his wife for tens of years and allowed men to assault her, speaks out in court.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:01:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Notorious Rape Trial Postponed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The trial against the Frenchman Dominique Pélicot, who is accused of drugging his wife and letting men assault her, is postponed. This is because he is too ill to come to court.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Testifying to Horror: Men Invited to Rape]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For ten years, Dominique Pélicot drugged his wife and invited men to rape her. The trial about the assaults is shaking France. They treated me like a rag doll, says Gisèle Pélicot when she testifies in court for the first time in French Avignon.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:40:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Retiree faces trial: Let 72 men rape wife]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A pensioner is facing trial in a case that has sparked outrage in France. The 71-year-old in southern French Avignon is accused of allowing more than 70 unknown men to rape his wife.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
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