{"id":138877,"date":"2024-12-19T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138877"},"modified":"2024-12-19T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:36:19","slug":"dominique-pelicot-found-guilty-in-mass-rape-trial-that-shook-france-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138877","title":{"rendered":"Dominique Pelicot Found Guilty in Mass Rape Trial That Shook France: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Until Sept. 2, 2024, most of the world did not really know what Gis\u00e8le Pelicot looked like.<\/p>\n<p>There were almost no photographs of Ms. Pelicot, a 72-year-old grandmother, online. She wasn\u2019t on social media. No one except her friends and family knew she had an orange Louise Brooks bob and a penchant for round John Lennon sunglasses.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But by Thursday, as Ms. Pelicot stood with her head held high in a courtroom in Avignon, France, as the verdicts in the harrowing four-month <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/02\/world\/europe\/france-husband-rape-drug-trial-mazan.html\" title=\"\">rape trial<\/a> of her ex-husband and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/27\/france-mass-rape-pelicot.html\" title=\"\">50 other men<\/a> were read, she had become the image of bravery across the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Her face has stared out from posters in protests across France and been pasted on the sides of buildings. It graced the digital cover of Vogue Germany and was used on a mock cover of Time\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldequebec.com\/2024\/12\/16\/gisele-pelicot-comme-personne-de-lannee-du-magazine-time-a-la-place-de-trump-un-montage-photo-viral-sur-les-reseaux\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">person of the year<\/a> issue. It has become the symbol of her own horrific experience, of course, but also that of every woman who was rendered helpless, lied to and abused. As one of her lawyers, St\u00e9phane Babonneau, said, Ms. Pelicot\u2019s face, with its seeming lack of artifice, has become the physical expression of the fact that \u201cthe shame has switched sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-azjh2q e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Ms. Pelicot on the digital cover of Vogue Germany.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Cecilia Lundgren\/Vogue Germany<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Rarely has someone who was so literally objectified \u2014 turned into a rag doll for men to violate as they saw fit \u2014 been able to so fully take back control of her own objectification and turn it into a picture of empowerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In this, Ms. Pelicot\u2019s image has become one in a long line of images that have transcended a unique story to become visual shorthand for a collective turning point. Think of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2019\/05\/world\/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">young man in the white shirt<\/a> standing in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989, or the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jun\/05\/turkey-lady-red-dress-ceyda-sungur\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">woman in the red dress<\/a> being tear-gassed during anti-government demonstrations in Turkey in 2013, or the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/18\/opinion\/a-sundress-in-an-age-of-riot-gear.html\" title=\"\">woman in the sundress<\/a> standing before a line of police in riot gear during a Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, La., in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Almost always, these photographs capture people who look utterly normal displaying extraordinary courage in an extraordinary time. And while Ms. Pelicot did not anticipate how much of a clarion call her face would become, Mr. Babonneau said, she knew that from the moment she made <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/05\/world\/europe\/france-rape-trial-pelicot-testimony.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\" title=\"\">the decision<\/a> to allow her trial to be public, rather than a closed-door hearing, people would be looking.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-1hs5yzu e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The colors Ms. Pelicot chose to wear to the courthouse were sedate. She didn\u2019t wear obvious makeup, but she looked well groomed. She looked recognizable.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Miguel Medina\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cEvery woman who has had to endure what she had to endure and takes the stand knows she is going to be observed, not just according to what she says, but how she looks,\u201d Mr. Babonneau said. Specifically, he added, that she is going to be judged on whether she meets social and cultural \u201cexpectations of what a victim looks like.\u201d Or, for that matter, what a hero looks like. Ms. Pelicot, he said, wanted to offer a different example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Envision a woman who may have been a victim but was not \u201cpowerless\u201d anymore. A woman whose former husband may have destroyed her life but who did not succeed in destroying her. A woman who was often described, according to Mr. Babonneau, as looking \u201cvery French,\u201d in that indescribable, you-know-it-when-you-see-it way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/french-street-artist-pays-tribute-to-victim-in-mass-rape-trial-38e19d30\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LaDame Quicolle<\/a>, an artist who created a large-scale portrait of Ms. Pelicot and posted it on the streets of Avignon, Lille, Paris, and Brussels, said, it was precisely because \u201cGis\u00e8le Pelicot is an ordinary woman\u201d that her image was so striking. (The adopted name \u201cLaDame Quicolle\u201d translates as \u201cthe woman who sticks,\u201d and the Pelicot image was part of series called \u201cWatchwomen\u201d featuring poster-size images of women who had experienced gender-based violence, metaphorically taking back the streets.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Put another way: While the men who abused her have been collectively called \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7vvj8gymyo\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monsieur-Tout-le-Monde<\/a>,\u201d or Mr. Everyman, because they appear so average, Ms. Pelicot has taken her own averageness and made it part of her superpower.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-azjh2q e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The artist LaDame Quicolle created a large portrait of Ms. Pelicot and posted it on the streets of Avignon, Lille, Paris and Brussels.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">LaDame Quicolle <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Whereas most of the women who came forward during <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/09\/france-metoo-adele-haenel.html\" title=\"\">France\u2019s #MeToo movement<\/a> were well-known figures in the worlds of fashion and film, Ms. Pelicot, LaDame Quicolle said, \u201ccould be our mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">From Day 1 of the trial, Ms. Pelicot appeared put together, but simple. Her jacket and coat collars were turned up just so. Often, she wore a white scarf draped around her neck. The colors she chose were sedate, the prints discreet. She didn\u2019t wear obvious makeup, but she looked well groomed. She looked recognizable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">She looked like what she was: a pensioner and a grandmother without pretensions, but with self-respect. The little round sunglasses that have become so familiar happened to be the ones she had in her purse on her first day in court. And she wore them initially as a form of protection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-q3z82y e73j0it0\">\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz- css-13wylk3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-fpbvhh ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The artist Aline Dessine offered her image of Ms. Pelicot to anyone who wished to demonstrate support.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Aline Dessine<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz- css-13wylk3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-fpbvhh ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Jc Milhet\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe eyes convey a lot of feelings,\u201d Mr. Babonneau said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how she would feel. Would she cry, feel lost, feel scared?\u201d By covering her eyes, he said, Ms. Pelicot had \u201ca measure of privacy.\u201d He and his co-counsel deliberately chose to walk a few steps behind their client, the better to allow her to lead the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe public knew her with this look,\u201d said Aline Dessine, a Belgian artist and illustrator. It is the look Ms. Dessine chose to convey when she created <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alinedessine\/video\/7411983309154028832\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an image of Ms. Pelicot<\/a> that she offered free to anyone who wished to demonstrate their allyship: a graphic portrait, identifiable solely through the shorthand of her haircut and sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As the trial progressed and the number of Ms. Pelicot\u2019s supporters outside the courthouse grew, applauding her courage, \u201cshe felt she didn\u2019t need the glasses anymore,\u201d Mr. Babonneau said. She wanted to make eye contact with the women who surrounded her.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Ms. Pelicot often wore a scarf created by Aboriginal women in Australia and sent to her as a gesture of solidarity.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Alexandre Dimou\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But by then, the sunglasses had moved from protective device to signature, and from signature to semiology. By then, Ms. Pelicot understood just how much even her smallest choices mattered, even \u2014 maybe especially \u2014 though for much of her married life they had been taken from her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">That is why, through days of testimony from her abusers, she wore <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-11-07\/gisele-pelicot-wears-first-nations-scarf-in-court\/104572194\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a silk scarf<\/a> with a print created by Aboriginal women in Australia and sent to her as a gesture of solidarity. It was but one among the many details that imbued her appearance with such power that it could transcend the trial and become a catalyst for change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In her familiarity, she contained multitudes. In her unstinting reflection, women saw themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/12\/19\/world\/france-rape-verdict-pelicot\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Sept. 2, 2024, most of the world did not really know what Gis\u00e8le Pelicot looked like. 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