A French appeals courtroom has handed an extended 10-year sentence to the one man to problem his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot whereas she was drugged and unconscious.
Building employee Husamettin Dogan, 44, was the one one in all 51 males convicted final December within the harrowing mass rape trial to enchantment towards his verdict.
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The trial was lined all over the world and turned Ms Pelicot into a world icon after she opposed a closed listening to – a requirement made by a number of defendants. The courtroom sided along with her.
These convicted included Dominique Pelicot, Ms Pelicot’s ex-husband, who knocked her unconscious by lacing her foods and drinks with medication earlier than providing her to strangers he met on-line between 2011 and 2020, filming their assaults.
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Ms Pelicot and her son Florian within the courtroom. Pic: AP
Dogan had been sentenced to 9 years in jail within the preliminary trial.
He was tried on costs of aggravated rape by administering substances that impair judgement or self-control, which may have been punished by as much as 20 years in jail.
The prosecutor within the enchantment case in Nimes, southern France, requested for a 12-year sentence, French media reported.
Dogan had denied he supposed to rape Ms Pelicot and claimed he was deceived by her husband.
Dominique Pelicot was discovered responsible on all costs and sentenced to the utmost 20 years in jail after admitting his function. He didn’t enchantment.
Husband filmed assaults
Sentences for the opposite convicted males, who have been discovered responsible of rape, tried rape or sexual assault, ranged from three to fifteen years in jail.
One among them was additionally convicted of drugging and raping his personal spouse with Dominique Pelicot’s assist.
Proof offered on the trial included horrific movies of rapes and assaults Dominique Pelicot filmed within the couple’s house within the small Provence city of Mazan and elsewhere.
In November, civil proceedings within the southern French metropolis of Avignon are on account of settle damages owed to Ms Pelicot and her household, to be paid collectively by the convicted males.
Ms Pelicot has grow to be a logo of the combat towards sexual violence, and the case has spurred a nationwide reckoning over rape tradition in France.
