Monster of Avignon's depraved band of rapists: All the men who had sex with unconscious Gisele Pelicot… and their warped crimes, verdicts and jail terms in full
Daily MailFrance's worst ever sexual abuse case has finally concluded after a months-long trial with 51 men brought to justice for their heinous crimes. Gisele Pelicot arrives in front of the courthouse before a verdict in the Pelicot case is delivered on December 19, 2024 in Avignon, France Dominque Pelicot was accused of drugging his ex wife Gisele and inviting dozens of men to rape her while he watched and filmed them over a decade long period of hell Co-defendants walk through the security portal as they arrive at the courthouse Members of the media and public gather as Gisele Pelicot arrives in front of the courthouse before a verdict in the Pelicot case is delivered on December 19, 2024 in Avignon, France Dominique Pelicot, 72 Pelicot, who had been with Mrs Pelicot for 50 years and shares three children with her, has admitted to serially raping and allowing others to abuse his wife. Gisele Pelicot arrives with her lawyers Antoine Camus and Stephane Babonneau at the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024 Beatrice Zavarro, the lawyer of Dominique Pelicot, a Frenchman accused of drugging his then-wife Gisele Pelicot and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her at their home in the southern French town of Mazan, talks to journalists Jacques Cubeau, 72, former firefighter Cubeau, a father-of-two who had been married for 25 years, denied raping Mrs Pelicot. A court sketch of Mrs Pelicot at the courthouse of Avignon, during the trial of her former partner accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan A woman holds a placard reading in French "all women on earth support you, thank you Gisele" as people gather outside the courthouse in Avignon on December 19, 2024 Thierry Postat, 61, refrigeration specialist The father-of-three denies raping Mrs Pelicot on August 21, 2020, saying he did not see anything out of the ordinary about the night in question and had previously had encounters with couples where the man had given consent for the woman. This court sketch created at the Avignon courthouse in Avignon, south-eastern France, on November 25, 2024, shows defendant Dominique Pelicot Patrick Gontard, lawyer of one of co-accused, talks to journalists after the verdict in the trial for Dominique Pelicot, a Frenchman accused of drugging his then-wife Gisele Pelicot and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her at their home in the southern French town of Mazan, and 50 co-accused, at the courthouse in Avignon, France, December 19, 2024 Didier Sambuchi, 68, truck driver The lorry driver and divorced father-of-two said he had gone to the Pelicots' 'exclusively for a homosexual encounter' with Pelicot on January 30, 2019.