Fifty-one men, including her former husband Dominique Pelicot, were convicted at the nearly four-month initial trial that ended in December and turned Gisele Pelicot into a global icon.
She arrived to applause at the court in the southern city of Nimes, dressed in a pink jacket and with her son Florian by her side, one of the three children she had with Dominique Pelicot. She warmly shook hands with her supporters, but did not make any statement.
Hiding behind a cap, face mask and dark glasses, Dogan -- who suffers from arthritis -- made a much more discreet entrance up the court's steps, leaning on a walking stick, an AFP video journalist saw.
Dominique Pelicot will be brought from prison, where he remains in solitary confinement, for cross-examination on Tuesday.
One of her lawyers said Gisele Pelicot would have been happy to forgo “this ordeal” but was not afraid of being thrust into the spotlight again.
“It challenges us all to think about gender relations and men’s relationship with their sexuality.”
Over a nine-year period, Gisele Pelicot was heavily drugged by her husband to be raped and sexually abused by strangers while unconscious, mostly at the family home in the southern French town of Mazan.
In December, Dogan was sentenced to nine years in prison. But his incarceration was delayed for health reasons.
Sixteen other men appealed their verdicts but later abandoned their bids.
“He is appealing because he maintains that he never intended to rape anyone,“ Jean-Marc Darrigade told AFP.
'He hears threats'
“He will explain exactly what happened to Dogan,“ his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told AFP.
“When he is inside his cell, he hears things through the window, he hears his name being mentioned a lot, he hears threats,“ Zavarro said.
Most of his co-defendants, aged 27 to 74, were convicted of rape.
Dogan said that in December 2019, he met a man online who presented himself as a member of a “libertine couple” whose wife “pretended to be asleep”.
He visited them the same evening and abused an inert Gisele Pelicot for at least half an hour. He said he only realised that something was wrong when he heard her snoring - AFP
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