Gisèle Pelicot returned to testify at the trial against the 51 men who raped her with the help and collaboration of her husband in a French town. In her hard fight in search of justice, she found the support of feminist associations in our country who came to support her.
Claudia Teserras is one of the feminist activists who decided to travel from Barcelona to the south of France to support Gisèle. “We looked into public transportation and rental cars and decided to go for it, it came out of our guts“, he admits.
This is where they learned her story best, in the city where she lives with her attackers even though there is no conviction. Before each trial, Gisèle coincides with breakfast in the cafeteria What’s before the courts? with the attackers and their families. Several feminist associations gathered in Avignon to demonstrate and some of them went to all the trials.
Pélicot wanted that in the trials videos are shown where they rape herso that everyone feels the harshness of the reality they had to experience and so that no one has the slightest doubt about the hell they experienced for years. Let the 51 attackers see, as well as their families, what they did to them.
