The 72-year-old's former husband has admitted to drugging her with sedatives and inviting dozens of strangers to rape and abuse her over nearly a decade in a case that shocked the world.
But Husamettin Dogan, 44, has appealed his conviction for rape and nine-year prison sentence, saying he never intended to rape her and was “trapped” by her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot in 2019.
An investigator on Tuesday said that images of the abuse found on Dominique Pelicot’s hard drive showed he had stayed at the house for at least “three hours and 24 minutes” -- not half an hour as he had claimed.
Dogan risks a maximum of 20 years in jail.
'Human rights are women's rights'
“You don’t touch a sleeping victim,“ he said.
A panel of five judges issued the verdicts against Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-defendants at the end of the trial last year in the southern city of Avignon.
Last year, the prosecution had requested 12 years for Dogan.
The other 49 men accused of abusing Gisele Pelicot received sentences ranging from three years in jail, including two suspended, to 15 years behind bars for a man who visited the Pelicot home six times.
Gisele Pelicot on Wednesday called for “victims to never be ashamed of what was forced upon them” - AFP
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