Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband found guilty of rapes and all other charges against him in France
A French court on Thursday declared the ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot guilty of aggravated rapes and all other charges against him.
A French court on Thursday declared the ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot guilty of aggravated rapes and all other charges against him.
The verdict for 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot was read by the lead judge of the court in Avignon, Roger Arata. He hasn't yet delivered the sentence, which can be up to 20 years imprisonment.
A panel of five judges is delivering verdicts for more than four dozen men charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault on Gisele Pelicot in a historic case that has profoundly shaken the country over the past several months.
Among the men on trial is Dominique Pelicot, the now ex-husband of the 72-year-old grandmother who admitted that for years he knocked his wife of 50 years out with drugs so he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her while he filmed the assaults.