French mass rape trial prosecutors demand maximum sentence for Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband

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00:00Both a lot and too little given the seriousness of the crimes.

00:05That's how public prosecutors have described their sentencing request for Dominique Pellicot,

00:10a man who's admitted to drugging and raping his wife Giselle Pellicot over a period of

00:15ten years and inviting strangers to rape her as well.

00:19Prosecutors want him to face the maximum 20 years in jail for the crime of aggravated

00:25rape, which came without surprise according to his lawyer as they left court.

00:31Prosecutors also started making their sentencing request for the 50 other accused in this case,

00:36most of them also facing charges of aggravated rape or gang rape.

00:41Many of those in this first group that prosecutors got through this Monday, they asked for ten

00:46years in jail for these men.

00:49Prosecutors also repeated the main arguments of the defendants that they made throughout

00:52the trial, many focusing on the fact that they did not know that Giselle Pellicot did

00:57not in fact consent.

01:00The prosecutors, however, said that it's just not possible to believe that these men did

01:04not know that she didn't consent given that she was unconscious at the time and that,

01:09you know, in 2024 we shouldn't still believe that because a woman doesn't say anything

01:13that that means that she gives her consent.

01:17Now sentencing requests for the rest of the accused will continue on Tuesday before defense

01:22lawyers give their closing arguments later in the week.

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