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The Coco chat platform, previously used by Dominique Pelicot to find men to rape his wife, has been relaunched, prompting French authorities to open an investigation into the site which was supposed to be shut down.
The body of Sophie Marne, identified as a potential victim of serial rapist Dominique Pelicot, has been exhumed as part of an ongoing investigation.
The daughter of the man who drugged, raped, and offered his wife on the internet to more than fifty men to abuse her claims justice in a new book: "I want to be recognized as..."
Mme Pelicot’s innate dignity shines through, as she explains why she waived her anonymity – after her husband drugged her so that dozens of men could sexually assault her It’s hard to judge an interview with Gisèle Pelicot in the normal terms. Let’s start with the easy bit: Victoria Derbyshire is the ideal interlocutor. The co-presenter of Newsnight has a kind of steely warmth that meshes well with the innate dignity of Mme Pelicot – as she is called throughout – while they walk unflinchingly through her terrible story. Her “descent into hell” began on 2 November 2020 when the local police called her and her husband, Dominique Pelicot, to the station. They believed it was to do with his recent arrest for covertly taking pictures underneath the skirts of three women in the supermarket. It was not. In the course of that investigation they had found on his laptop thousands upon thousands of videos and photographs accumulated over a decade of his wife unconscious and being raped by strangers. Continue reading...
Gisèle Pelicot, whose ex-husband Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years for drugging and facilitating her rape, powerfully explained her reasons for keeping his last name.
The body of Sophie Narme was exhumed for analysis to determine Dominique Pelicot's involvement in her alleged rape, with ongoing investigations.
Gisèle Pelicot, 73, has reached the top of the Norwegian bestseller list with her book detailing her life with Dominique Pelicot, one of the century's most notorious sex offenders.
The body of a young real estate agent, raped and killed in 1991, has been exhumed as part of an investigation into whether serial rapist Dominique Pelicot was the perpetrator, who had partially confessed in a similar case.
Dominique Pelicot, convicted in the Mazan rapes case, has been transferred to the central prison of Ensisheim near Mulhouse, a facility known for housing inmates serving very long sentences.
Legal proceedings in France, such as those involving Dominique Pelicot and surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, highlight the scale of sexual violence and the impunity many French criminals have enjoyed, as the country brings these 'monsters' to justice.