Of the 95 men who came to the house only three walked in and saw the state of Gisèle and declined to rape her, not one of those three men decided to do anything to protect her, not one decided to report what was happening.
Rapists are not monsters in shadows, they are among us, in our homes and workplaces On Thursday, December 19, Gisèle Pelicot stood in court to witness her husband of 50 years and the men he recruited to rape her be sentenced to a combined total of more than 400 years in prison for their crimes against her unconscious body.
They are married men, young men, old men, fathers, an ex police officer, a firefighter, a journalist, a nurse.
From viewing the videos the police established that around 92 men had engaged in this depravity - most of them living within a few kilometers of each other in a small village of 6000 people in France.
When she was sedated to the point of near coma, he would invite men over who he’d met on a forum called “Without her knowing” and allow them to rape his wife.
