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full screen On Tuesday, Gisèle Pélicot made her final statement in the high-profile rape trial in Avignon, France. Archive image. Photo: Lewis Joly/AP/TT
Gisèle Pélicot, 71, the woman at the center of a high-profile French mass rape trial, is demanding that society begin to look differently at sexual violence.
– It is time for the macho society, the patriarchal society, which trivializes rape to change, she says in court ahead of this week’s closing arguments.
Her ex-husband Dominique Pélicot and dozens of other men are on trial, accused of raping her while she was drugged.
The trial ends this week and the judgment in the high-profile case is expected next month.