The trial is a story of what ordinary men did to one ordinary woman... At least 51, but almost certainly more, men did to one woman while she was drugged.
Ms. Pelicot opened up a conversation about sexual violence in a country where a serious reckoning was well overdue… It’s difficult for me to hear that it’s basically banal to have raped Madame Pelicot.
Convictions for rape are rare in France—94 percent of reported cases were dropped in 2020, and only 10 to 15 percent of rape complaints ended in a criminal conviction.
After the verdicts were handed down, Ms. Pelicot paid tribute to those who have been denied justice: I think of the victims, unrecognized, whose stories often remain hidden.
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