On Saturday, gathered women and men in Paris and cities all over France to aid Gisèle Pelicot’s campaign against sexual abuse. A protest was organized in response to the test of her ex-husband and lots of other guys who were alleged to have raped her for more than ten years while she was unconscious and sedated.
Presentations were held in places like Lyon and outside Paris’s criminal court to highlight Pelicot’s courage in expressing her ten-year struggle, which has shocked and outraged some.
51 alleged criminals have been present since Pelicot’s test started on September 2. Despite the court’s original suggestion to hold the trial behind closed doors, she has received a lot of praise for her calm and decision to keep it public.
Elsa Labouret, director for the children’s class” Osez la féminisme”! ( Dare to be Feminist! ), praised Pelicot’s choice to make the trial people, bringing notice to the crime that some people endure.
Patients are not required to do what she did, according to Labouret, but what she did is crucial because we can no longer dismiss the crime that some men may use, she continued.
Demonstrators carried banners reading,” Shame may change edges”,” Stop the denial”,” No your beating game” and” We are all Gisèle. Are you all Dominique”? They criticized the European justice system’s “leniency” regarding sexual assault.
Dominique Pelicot admitted to drugging his wife for almost ten years and allowing different men to murder her while she lay unconscious in court. He even admitted to having raped her on his own.
The accused, aged 26 to 74, include several men who deny the costs, claiming they were misled by Dominique or believed Gisèle was consenting.
Followers view Pelicot as a symbol of tenacity and courage, with one activist, Khalil Ndiaye, saying,” She decided to fight, and she’s inspiring us to fight, to”.
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