In a powerful 90-minute-long testimony before the court in Avignon, Gisele opened up on how the discovery drove her to the brink of suicide and left her daughter in a psychiatric ward. ' ...

Speaking in a packed courtroom in Avignon in September, Gisele said: "I was sacrificed on the altar of vice. It's a dead woman on a bed. This isn't a bedroom, it's an operating theatre.

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls ... by the notices for plays since the summer theater festival began in the city soon after World War II.

Dominique, dubbed the Devil of Avignon, wept as he was found guilty on all charges of aggravated rape, attempted aggravated rape and of taking indecent images of women including his daughter ...

Gisele Pelicot has been cheered and applauded after leaving the courtroom where her ex-husband Dominque Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging her and allowing other men to rape her.

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Dubbed the Monster of Avignon, Pelicot had already pleaded guilty to all the charges against him, including the aggravated rape of his then-wife Gisele and the attempted rape of the wife of one ...

Addressing the crowd outside the court in Avignon, she said: ‘I am thinking of all the other families affected by this tragedy and all the unrecognised victims. We share the same fight.’ ...

A video on Spring Festival is played during the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asuncion, Paraguay, Dec. 4, 2024.