Gisèle Pelicot ‘honoured’ to wear scarf from Australian women’s group in court
Scarf made by First Nations women showed Pelicot that others around the world ‘feel the same way’, says lawyer
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who has become a feminist hero after insisting that the rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men should be held in public, has said she was honoured to wear a scarf to court each day that was sent to her by an Australian organisation working to raise awareness of sexual assaults on older women.
“I’m very honoured to wear it,” Pelicot said on leaving the court in Avignon, which has heard how her then husband, Dominique Pelicot, crushed sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into her food and invited dozens of men to rape her over a nine-year period from 2011 to 2020 in the village of Mazan in Provence.
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