“ENTIRE SORDID SOCIAL SYSTEM”
Public prosecutor Dominique Sie had earlier on Thursday requested 12 years in jail for Dogan.
“So long as you refuse to confess it, it isn’t only a lady, it is a complete sordid social system that you’re endorsing,” Sie advised him.
“There must be an evolution for you, and for society, from rape tradition to a tradition of consent.”
One investigator advised the court docket on Tuesday that photos of the abuse discovered on Dominique Pelicot’s onerous drive confirmed Dogan had stayed on the Pelicot home for not less than “three hours and 24 minutes”.
Footage proven to the court docket featured him penetrating an inert Gisele Pelicot.
On the unique trial, a panel of 5 judges issued the verdicts in opposition to Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-defendants final 12 months within the southern metropolis of Avignon.
This time in Nimes, it was a folks’s jury of 5 males and 4 ladies who determined.
The opposite 49 males accused of abusing Gisele Pelicot acquired sentences starting from three years in jail, together with two suspended, to fifteen years behind bars for a person who visited the Pelicot house six occasions.
One other man, who didn’t assault Gisele Pelicot however repeatedly abused his personal spouse with Dominique Pelicot’s assist, was sentenced to 12 years.
Gisele Pelicot, on Wednesday, known as for “victims to by no means be ashamed of what was pressured upon them”.
