‘Gisèle is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial

 

"Why, when confronted with the inert body of a drugged and unconscious woman, did these “ordinary men”, as they were described in court, with ordinary names – Laurent, Nicolas, Philippe, Christian, Hassan – not leave? Why did not one of them go to the police and put an end to the decade-long abuse of a woman that could have killed her?

“The question is not why you went there, but why you stayed,” one of Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers, Antoine Camus, told the court."

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‘Gisèle is waiting for explanations’: the dark questions at the heart of the Pelicot trial | Gisèle Pelicot rape trial | The Guardian