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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Gisele Pelicot walks during an interuption at the Avignon courthouse as she attends the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France, in Avignon, on September 17, 2024. A court in the southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. The court proceedings, which runs until December, are open to the public at the request of Dominique Pelicot's ex-wife and victim. — AFP pic
MARSEILLE, Sept 21 — The mayor of the French town where a man for over a decade brought strangers to rape his wife apologised yesterday for remarks that were criticised for playing down the ordeal of the victim.
Louis Bonnet, 74, mayor of Mazan in southern France, told broadcaster BBC in an interview that “after all, no one died” about the mass rape for which dozens of men are on trial.
They are accused of raping Gisele Pelicot at the invitation of her then-husband Dominique Pelicot who drugged her first.
“It could have been far more serious,” Bonnet told the BBC. “There were no kids involved. No women were killed.”
Bonnet’s remark caused a storm of indignation on social media in France and beyond.
“People say I minimised the serious nature of the abject crimes of which the defendants are accused,” Bonnet said in a statement posted on Facebook.
“I understand that people are shocked by these remarks and I am truly sorry.”
The mayor said his apologies were addressed “notably to women who were hurt by the clumsy words that were pronounced under the pressure felt in front of the microphone of a foreign media”.
Mazan and its 6,000 residents had been under “constant media pressure” since the start of the mass rape trial this month, he said.
Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging Gisele Pelicot into unconsciousness and inviting strangers to rape her.
She has become a feminist icon since demanding a public trial.
The trial has horrified France, partly because 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot’s co-defendants include apparently ordinary men such as a fireman, a nurse and a journalist, many of them with families.
Forty-nine co-defendants are accused of raping or attempting to rape Gisele Pelicot, and one is accused of imitating Dominique Pelicot to sexually assault his own wife. — AFP
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