Guilty verdicts for all. A court in southern France sentencing Dominique Pelicot along with the fifty co-defendants he invited over the Internet into the family home to rape his drugged wife. The seventy two-year old pensioner got the maximum twenty years.
We will ask what the last two months have revealed, first about the courage of ex-wife Gisele Pelicot who opted to go public, attending every day of the three and-a-half month trial, saying shame was for her predators, less than one-third of whom expressed remorse in their closing statements.
Is the verdict a triumph for victims the world over? Or does it challenge the presumption of that after MeToo, women’s rights can only progress? After all, the evidence was posted online years before police or the victim caught wind of what was playing out in the Provence village of Mazan.
Produced by Aline Bottin, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip.
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