“What woman can live like that?” – At the Mazan rape trial, Gisèle Pélicot recounted the story of her life this Thursday, until her “world collapsed” when her husband’s actions were revealed. He is accused of drugging her and letting her be raped by dozens of men.
At the criminal court of Vaucluse,
“A tsunami”, “scenes of barbarity” and its “world [qui] “collapses”. At the Mazan rape trial, Gisèle Pélicot, drugged by her husband and raped by several dozen men for almost a decade, spoke for the first time since the opening of the hearing this Monday in Avignon (Vaucluse).
For nearly four hours, she faced her attackers, the court and the public, rewinding in one go, with clarity, courage and concision the thread of her life until the day when, in the investigators’ office, ” [s]our world is collapsing.” In a red-orange dress, topped with a white jacket, Gisèle Pélicot first recounted her childhood, already marked by a fight with the death of her mother when she was 9 years old. “My father did not give up, he is a boxer, like me. […] I understood then that my life would not be like that of others.”
But nothing, absolutely nothing, could prepare her for what she was about to experience. “I started working young, at 16, as a secretary. Three years later, I met (…) - 20minutes
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