Gisele pelicot: Gisèle Pelicot [a] (French

Gisèle Pelicot [a] (French: [ʒizɛl peliko] ⓘ; born 7 December 1952) is a French woman who was drugged and raped by her husband Dominique Pelicot on numerous occasions between 2011 and 2020. The change is the result of a cross-party, years-long debate which gained renewed urgency after last year's Pelicot rape trial, in which 50 men were found guilty of sexually assaulting or raping ... The first day Gisèle Pelicot walked up the steps of the courthouse in Avignon in September 2024, she was an anonymous retired grandmother. Within weeks, this diminutive 72-year-old - the victim ... Gisèle Pelicot (center) attends a hearing in an appeal trial filed by one of the 51 people convicted in a mass rape trial, at the courthouse in Nimes, France, Oct. 8, 2025.