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Gisèle Pélicot tells mass rape trial that she ‘never gave consent’
Former wife of Dominique Pélicot, who allegedly recruited strangers to assault her, calls accused men ‘degenerates’
The former wife of a French man accused of recruiting strangers to rape her while she was drugged has told a court she never consented and the men who allegedly assaulted her were “degenerates”.
Appearing at the trial of her former husband, Dominique Pélicot, and 50 men he allegedly invited to rape her, Gisèle Pélicot, 72, said: “I never, even for a single second, gave my consent to Mr Pélicot or those other men.”
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