The 71-year-old Frenchman drugged his wife and invited dozens of strangers to rape her over a nine-year period.
Outside view of the court during the trial of Dominique Pelicot in Avignon, France, on November 20, 2024 [Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters]
Prosecutors in France have demanded the maximum 20-year prison sentence for a man who organised the mass rape of his then-wife for almost a decade.
Dominique Pelicot knocked his wife Gisele Pelicot unconscious with drugs and invited dozens of strangers to abuse her in their family homes in Paris and the southern town of Mazan between 2011 and 2020.
for participating in the abuse. Prosecutors are expected to announce what sentences they will seek against the co-accused over the next two days.
Prosecutors have rejected arguments made by many of the men, aged between 21 and 68 at the time of the assaults, that they believed they were participating in a consensual fantasy or were not in their right mind.
