The Shocking Case Of Gisèle Pelicot, Whose Mass Rape Trial Just Declared 51 Men Guilty

Dominique Pelicot, 72, who admitted sedating his then wife with sleeping pills from 2011 to 2020 so that men he recruited online could rape her in her own bed, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape.

The other accused aged 27 to 74 have hailed from all walks of life, and included an unemployed man, a truck driver, a journalist, a firefighter, an engineer and an electrician.

Their apparent ordinariness led to them being dubbed "Monsieur-Tout-Le-Monde" in French media . They were sentenced to terms of between three and 15 years.