The four-month study received extensive international media coverage. The world was outraged by the heinousness of the details of Gisele’s assault at the hands of her ex-husband.
Tensions at the French mass rape trial burst into the open on Wednesday when Dominique Pelicot’s daughter Caroline Darian shouted at her father from across the courtroom that he would “die alone like a dog”. After semi-naked pictures of her sleeping were discovered on her father’s laptop, 45-year-old Caroline has stated time and time again that she believes her father drugged and mistreated her.
However, he denied taking photos of her and said that he would have accepted this if he had done this. He has acknowledged drugging his wife Gisèle for ten years and finding men online to rape her in their home while she was asleep, but he has denied mistreating her.
Pelicot was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in jail for aggravated rape and other related counts by presiding judge Roger Arata.
The four-month trial included 50 additional defendants, aged 26 to 74, from diverse professions. At least 20 of the men were convicted guilty of rape by the court after they were allegedly enlisted by Dominique Pelicot to rape his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot.
