Gisele Pelicot did not put herself through a ritual public skinning because she wanted to be some kind of icon. She did it to start a conversation
Gisèle Pelicot did not put herself through the ordeal of a public trial because she wanted to be some kind of icon. She did it to start a conversation
But Gisèle Pelicot did not put herself through what the ordeal of a public trial because she wanted to be an icon. Instead, as she made clear again on Thursday, after the sentencing of 51 men for her rape and sexual assault while she was drugged and unconscious, she did it to start a conversation; for “society to seize the necessary debate”. It would be an injustice to her to simply focus on her bravery and ignore the questions raised by the trial.
Dominique Pelicot’s methods and the scale of his offending – the sheer, sick brazenness of his hosting an open house for rapists which he advertised on a chat forum; the painstaking documenting of the crimes against his wife, which he filed away on a hard drive helpfully labelled ‘abuse’; the drugging of her to the point that she thought she was developing signs of Alzheimer’s – made this case exceptional.
There should be no real surprise, either, that he so easily found up to 70 others to participate in these dark fantasies. The French news media called the 50 who have been identified and convicted “Monsieur Tout-le-monde”, or “Mr Everyman.” Aged between 26 and 74, they included tradesmen, firefighters, truck drivers, a journalist, a nurse. The courts here are heaving with similar pillars of the community who have done terrible things to the women, girls and boys who trusted them.
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