Dominique Pelicot won’t appeal conviction in ex-wife’s rape trial in France
Al JazeeraThe Frenchman was jailed for 20 years for drugging and raping his then-wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same. A Frenchman found guilty of drugging and raping his then-wife Gisele Pelicot and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a decade, will not appeal his conviction, says his lawyer. “Dominique Pelicot has taken the decision to not appeal the verdict,” Beatrice Zavarro told the AFP news agency on Monday. An appeal “would force Gisele to undergo a new ordeal, new confrontations, which Dominique Pelicot refuses” to do, Zavarro said, adding that “it is time to finish judicially”. “It seems to me that filing an appeal contradicts those words.” Dominique Pelicot, who was married to Gisele for 50 years, had pleaded guilty and the panel of five judges gave him the maximum sentence, as requested by prosecutors.