"Her ex-husband, Dominique, who will almost certainly be in jail for the rest of his life for drugging and raping his wife and recruiting 50 men over the internet to do likewise, takes his place among the monsters of our age. In his absence, the reader may experience a version of what happened in Gisele Pelicot's own family namely, the misdirection of anger towards her."
"was 67 when her husband of almost 50 years was arrested in 2020 for upskirting women in a supermarket in Carpentras, a small town in the south-east of France near the couple's retirement home in the village of Mazan. When the police investigation uncovered a cache of videos and photos in which an unconscious Pelicot was shown being sexually assaulted by scores of men, she entered a nightmare."
"A Hymn to Life is alive with the kind of detail that wouldn't look out of place in a good novel, but it's the expression it gives to something glimpsed at during the trial that makes it so singular; namely, the transformation of Gisele Pelicot from a self-avowedly ordinary woman, content with my little life, into a figure of astonishing power."
Gisele Pelicot was 67 when her husband of almost fifty years was arrested in 2020 for upskirting women in a supermarket. Police found videos and photos showing an unconscious Pelicot being sexually assaulted by scores of men whom her husband had recruited over the internet. He faces likely life imprisonment for drugging, raping and coordinating assaults on about fifty men. Pelicot kept her married name to give grandchildren shared pride rather than shame. She moved to the Ile de Re, used grim humour to describe her altered state, and transformed from an ordinary, content retiree into a figure of astonishing power.
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