AVIGNON, France (Reuters) -The prosecution requested on Monday that Dominique Pelicot be sentenced to jail for 20 years for drugging and raping his spouse Gisele Pelicot and recruiting dozens of others to rape her for practically a decade in a case that has shocked the world.
“The utmost sentence is 20 years, which is so much… however on the similar time … too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that have been dedicated and repeated”, the general public prosecutor Laure Chabaud advised the court docket.
Dominique Pelicot, has admitted to drugging his spouse, raping her and orchestrating her mass rape. The trial has attracted worldwide consideration and was an examination of the pervasiveness of sexual violence.
Regardless of video proof in opposition to them, many of the 50 different males on trial have stated they didn’t realise they have been raping her, didn’t intend to rape her or put all of the blame on her husband, whom they stated had manipulated them.
