Mass rape trial in France sheds light on what women say is a ‘rape culture’
Posted on AllSides September 17th, 2024
From The Left
MAZAN, France — This quaint village nestled among rolling hills in the south of France seems an unlikely setting for a crime so horrific it strained belief: Over a decade, police say dozens of men systematically raped a woman as she lay unconscious in her own bed, drugged by her husband of 50 years. Dominique Pelicot, 71, a retired electrician, has admitted to orchestrating multiple rapes of Gisèle Pelicot, 72, offering her to a steady stream of men he met in an online chatroom and filming the repeated assaults until...