AVIGNON: The trial in France of a person charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated spouse has shaken French society and should essentially change relationships between women and men, a prosecutor mentioned Monday.
“This trial is shaking up our society in our relationship with one another, in essentially the most intimate relationships between human beings,” Jean-Francois Mayet instructed the court docket within the southern metropolis of Avignon.
The trial is making French society work “to know our wants, our feelings, our wishes and above all to take into consideration these of others,” he mentioned.
What’s at stake, he added, “isn’t a conviction or an acquittal” however “to essentially change the relations between women and men,” he added.
The prosecution is outlining its calls for for the sentencing of the 51 males on trial, together with the principle accused Dominique Pelicot, the previous husband of the sufferer Gisele Pelicot.
The boys, aged between 26 and 74 years, are largely charged with aggravated rape and withstand 20 years of imprisonment if convicted.
“The information, and the character of every accused, had been taken into consideration even in our sentencing calls for”, Mayet added, saying that “justice wants calm and peaceable debates.”
He additionally praised the “braveness” and “dignity” of Gisele Pelicot, the sufferer of some 200 repeated rapes, half of which had been attributed to her ex-husband.
Mayet thanked her for permitting hearings to be open to the general public and permitting a number of the 20,000 or so pictures and movies taken with out her data by Dominique Pelicot to be proven.
“You had been proper, madam: the previous few weeks have proven the significance of exhibiting this, in order that disgrace modifications sides,” he added.
