Some ex-girlfriends of accused men tell court of burden of not knowing if they had been sedated and molested in past Giving evidence in Avignon’s criminal court, a softly spoken woman in her 30s pondered the question if the medication she took as part of managing her multiple sclerosis might have allowed her ex-partner, Cédric G, to sexually abuse her without her knowledge. She described their relationship as “lies, from start to finish”.Cédric G, 50, a software technician who used to run a record shop in Avignon, looked on from behind the glass-screened dock in the court. He is one of 51 men on trial over the rape of Gisèle Pelicot, whose then husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/women-give-evidence-rape-trial-of-dominique-pelicot-continues
Author : Angelique Chrisafis in Avignon
Publish date : 2024-11-08 16:46:53
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‘Was I drugged and raped? I’ll never know.’ Partners of accused share fears at Pelicot trial
