Gisele Pelicot and France's MeToo moment
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A woman’s decision to waive her anonymity and have a public trial after her husband drugged her and invited dozens of men to rape her over a decade has reignited the MeToo movement in France.
Gisele Pelicot has become a feminist hero after insisting that the trial be held in public to raise awareness, saying: "It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them."
Niall is joined by our Europe correspondent Siobhan Robbins to explore how the 'trial of the century' has unfolded and speaks to writer and MeTooMedia ambassador Benedicte Martin about what it means for women in France.
Producers: Soila Apparicio, Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:00.3 | Protests against sexual violence will be taking place across France this weekend, |
| 1:04.5 | as the nation comes to terms with one of the most shocking criminal cases it's ever seen. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Neil Patterson, and in this edition of the Daily, |
| 1:11.8 | we're going to be looking at the mass rape trial |
| 1:14.3 | that is prompting what some are describing as Francie's Me Too moment. |
| 1:18.8 | At the heart of the story, Dominique and Giselle Pelico, |
| 1:21.9 | a married couple in their 70s. |
| 1:24.3 | Over a period of nine years, |
| 1:26.3 | Giselle was drugged by her husband, and, it's alleged, raped more than 200 |
| 1:30.9 | times by him and dozens of other men. The abuse was often video recorded. As the trial enters its |
| 1:37.5 | final stages, we will be looking at the crimes and the calls for stronger measures against sexual |
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