It was never believable that this woman didn’t know this was happening.

Reuters:

A French court found all 51 defendants guilty on Thursday in a drugging-and-rape case that horrified the world and transformed the victim, Gisele Pelicot, into a stirring symbol of courage and resilience.

Pelicot’s ex-husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, had pleaded guilty to drugging her repeatedly for almost a decade to rape her and to offer up her unconscious body for sex to dozens of strangers he had met online, while videoing the abuse.

A decade.

A panel of five judges sentenced him to the maximum 20 years in jail, as requested by prosecutors.

The court imposed generally shorter terms than the four-to-18 years demanded by the prosecution for the other defendants, almost all of whom were accused of raping the comatose Gisele Pelicot.

In all, the court found 47 of the defendants guilty of rape, two guilty of attempted rape and two guilty of sexual assault.

A cheer went up outside the court in the southern French city of Avignon among the victim’s supporters when news of the first guilty verdicts filtered out.

Many of the accused had denied the charges, saying they thought it was a consensual sex game orchestrated by the couple and arguing that it was not rape if the husband approved.

Dominique Pelicot, 72, denied misleading the men, saying they knew exactly what they were doing. “I am a rapist like the others in this room,” he said during testimony.

Gisele, who is also 72, waived her right to anonymity during the trial and demanded that horrifying videos of the serial abuse, which were recorded by her former husband, should be seen in court, saying she hoped this would help other women speak up.

See?

She’s the sick one. Or at least more sick.

This whole trial was a big sexual fetish thing for her, just like the weird gang bangs.

The trial has triggered protest rallies around France in support of Gisele, and spurred soul searching, including a debate on whether to update France’s rape law, which at present makes no mention that sex should involve consent.

Gisele stared down her abusers with steely determination in the packed courtroom day after day, scoffing at any claim that she might have been a willing participant.

“I’ve decided not to be ashamed, I’ve done nothing wrong,” she testified in October. “They are the ones who must be ashamed,” she said.

The Pelicots’ children, David, Caroline and Florian, arrived in court to hear the verdict alongside their mother. The siblings have spoken out forcibly against their father, rejecting his pleas for forgiveness.

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Police believe 72 men had gone to the house to rape and abuse Gisele, but they were not able to identify them all.

Pelicot acknowledged that he had put powerful tranquilizers into his wife’s food and coffee that put her to sleep for hours. Gisele said she was worried she was developing Alzheimer’s or had a brain tumour because of the memory gaps.

This sort of thing shouldn’t be happening, but how did the woman not know?

This is really a case of something grotesque being so offensive to the public that they will just go along with doing anything to the individual.

How did she not know?

Fun fact: there is nothing less macho than bringing over dudes to bang your woman while you watch

People used to tell me we live in a society, but I never believed it.

I’ve been vindicated, time and again.

European Conservative:

The trial of a horrifying case opened at Avignon’s Court on Monday, September 2nd. A man is on trial for drugging his wife for ten years and subjecting her, without her knowledge, to rape by dozens of strangers. The ordeal endured by this woman for so many years raises many questions.

The crime committed by Dominique Pélicot, a retired man, now aged 71, was only discovered by chance. In September 2020, the man was arrested for filming under the skirts of women in a supermarket. During a search of his home, the police were horrified to discover material on his computer that revealed the profile of a man guilty of a decade of horrific crimes. For ten years, he drugged his wife with powerful anti-anxiety drugs, then handed her over to rapists recruited online, whom he filmed in action. He then kept the videos of these unspeakable visits, duly catalogued.

Over a ten-year period, between 2011 and 2020, Gisèle was raped 92 times, the investigators established. Some of the perpetrators visited the couple’s home several times. All will be tried for ‘aggravated rape.’ In all, 73 perpetrators were counted, 51 of whom have been identified. An extraordinary trial thus opened on Monday, September 2nd, pitting a single victim, Gisèle Pélicot, against 51 men who abused her without her ever being aware of it. For many of them, the line of defence is that they did not know that their prey was unconscious, and that it was simply a ‘game,’ a consensual ‘fantasy’ between husband and wife.

I’m sure quite a lot of them actually believed that.

Porn is so ubiquitous, and has normalized so many utterly insane things, that hearing about a woman who likes to get banged by random men while pretending she’s unconscious while her husband films probably doesn’t phase anyone anymore.

You could go to any porn site right now and find more disgusting things than that on just the opening page.

Even finding so many men who want to fuck a granny-aged woman in the first place is itself a result of porn.

The wife is the small one in the center

In normal, non-pornified conditions, the only men you’d find who would want to be grannyfuckers are niggers, politicians, and the top 10% horniest teenage virgins.

The trial should initially have been held behind closed doors, but the victim courageously refused and asked for the proceedings to be held in public. It’s time for “shame to change sides,” argued her lawyer. Gisèle Pélicot has the support of her three children, especially her daughter, who wants to draw attention to the tragedies of the ‘chemical submission’ of which her mother was a victim, and which is not an isolated case, she says.

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The press is quick to point out the great diversity of rapists—a lorry driver, a fireman, a factory worker, a nurse, a contractor, a soldier, a journalist, or even a plumber—making it possible to assert that rapists are “just anybody,” and that there is no such thing as a typical rapist profile. For some feminists interviewed in the media, this is proof that the over-representation of foreigners among perpetrators of sexual assault is a myth. But there is another element, revealed when Dominique Pénicot was indicted two years ago, which has now been swept under the carpet: the man admitted at the time that he had knowingly handed his wife over to men of various races to “cure her of her racism.” “My wife was racist, but I wasn’t, so I had a black man come, an Arab man… Seeing her with the opposite of her turned me on even more,” he told the experts at the time.

I wonder why that little tidbit is almost completely non-existent in English media?

Maybe they just forgot?

I don’t get why feminists are angry. All he did was decolonize his wife’s cunt.