A sign of unprecedented enthusiasm, 86 foreign media have become accredited to follow the Mazan rape trial.
The day after the verdict, establishing the maximum sentence for Dominique Pelicot, many dailies in the international press devoted their front pages to it, emphasizing “Gisèle's message of hope after the horror”.
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The extraordinary trial of the Mazan rapes
Many of them devote their first pages to the Mazan rape trial. After four months of debate, the latter concluded Thursday with the maximum sentence for Dominique Pelicot, tried for having doused his wife with anxiolytics, in order to make her his sexual object and deliver her to dozens of men recruited on Internet. A verdict covered by dozens of international media, Friday December 20.
In the United Kingdom, the Daily Express newspaper headlines “Gisèle's message of hope after the horror”when the Daily Mail salutes “the elegant French woman with a heart of steel who became the heroine of all victims of male abuse”dedicating a special file to the trial. Of Guardian au Timesall display on the front page the photo of this standing victim, who has become an icon of the women's cause.
The German daily newspapers also salute the courage of Gisèle Pelicot. “She defeated the devil”lance Bild. For its part, the daily Frankfurter Rundschau recalls “what we owe to Gisèle Pelicot”, as shown in the screenshot below.
In Belgium, The evening decides to headline the outcome of the trial: “All guilty”we can read, while Dominique Pelicot, 72, was sentenced to the maximum sentence for aggravated rape, i.e. 20 years of criminal imprisonment, as requested by the prosecution. His 50 co-defendants were also found guilty, most of them for “aggravated rape”. The Belgian daily recalls that Gisèle Pelicot is “become the symbol of the fight against sexual violence”.
The Italian daily “The Press”, him, puts in the spotlight “the woman who conquered shame”. However, she highlights a “bitter justice”the trial having concluded with lower sentences than those requested by the prosecution for the 50 co-defendants.
If the front pages of newspapers across the Atlantic are not yet available this Friday morning, certain American media have closely followed the Mazan rape trial. Thursday afternoon, after the announcement of the verdict, the New York Times published at the top of its website a photo of Gisèle Pelicot, all smiles, with the title: “The face of courage”. In total, of the 180 media accredited to follow this affair, 86 were foreign.
