“Gisèle Pelicot took action. It’s up to us to prove that we can do it too”

Four hundred and twenty years in prison… and then? The press around the world unanimously salutes the courage of Gisèle Pelicot and the conviction of the 51 defendants tried for the sedated rapes that she suffered for almost a decade. But beyond the judgment and the facts, what most foreign editorialists take away from it is that it marks the beginning of a new era in which everything remains to be done, because “we could all be the monster”as summarized The Country.

For many, this trial, of which all recognize the character “historical”was first of all that of banality, that of the accused as well as their victim. “This case revealed that monsters often had the features of an ordinary neighbor. But also that the majority of attacks took place in a family setting and that the murder weapon was within everyone’s reach, in the bathroom medicine cabinet.observes the Spanish journalist Daniel Verdu, for The Country. The magnitude of the “trial of the monsters of Mazan”as the Austrian daily calls it The standarda “showed that sexual predators are neither rare nor abnormal”abound the editorialists of the Guardian British, just like their American colleague Megan Clement, from New York Times.

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