"There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisele Pelicot being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn't have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia's, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent."
"Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia arrived in Avignon to watch mass rape in the dock. She had intended to come for a day or two, just to see it, and then go back to her normal life. But I was seeing things that the journalists were not seeing, because we're not doing the same job. Also, something deeper happened. It felt like I couldn't do anything else."
Manon Garcia is a French feminist philosopher whose testimony featured during the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. Prosecutors relied on philosophical argumentation despite overwhelming visual evidence: 20,000 videos and photos documenting Gisele Pelicot being raped while unconscious by numerous men. Garcia traveled to Avignon six weeks into the trial and found herself compelled to remain, unable to continue daily life or childcare during proceedings. The case involved allegations against Dominique Pelicot and roughly fifty other men. Gisele Pelicot survived massive sexual violence and a decade of subsequent hardship. The events exposed deep social and legal issues around consent and mass sexual violence.
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