Thousands of people are demonstrating in the streets of Paris this Saturday to show their support for Gisèle Pélicotthe woman whose husband drugged and allowed dozens of unknown men to be raped for years. Protestants They set an example for Spain in the fight against gender-based violence after mentioning cases like “La Manada”, as well as the mobilizations that were triggered when the courts convicted the five attackers of sexual abuse and not of rape, which would have meant a harsher sentence. It was finally elevated to the level of rape.In Spain they laid the first stone“, proclaimed activist Anne-Cécile Mailfert, from the Fondation Femmes association.
In the same spirit, they denounced the Laxity of justice and inefficiency of the police when he condemns and investigates cases of rape against women. “We are going to make this (Gisèle Pélicot) move historic, because not a day goes by without a woman writing to me to say: ‘My name is Gisèle Pélicot.’ We will fight against impunity and rape culture, “Because more than 90% of rape complaints are not accepted for processing, the majority are not even investigated,” said the
“We consider you a rapist, we believe in you as a victim,” was one of the most chanted slogans by the participants in the demonstration, which included a good number of men. Slogans were also heard against the “patriarchal culture” that, according to some reports, permeates the police and the judicial system.
These are not “sex scenes”
The leaders of the demonstration also censored the remarks of the president of the Vaucluse criminal court, who preferred to speak of ““sex scenes” than “rape”at the beginning of a process that will last months.
The massive demonstration comes 10 days after the highly publicized trial, in which Gisèle Pelicot decided to stand up to the 51 men who raped her with her husband’s consent and which she decided to do openly. “She wants it to be known and, out of shame, to change sides,” said Stéphane Babonneau, Gisèle’s lawyer, at the start of the trial. During the trial hearings, the accused tried to keep their faces hidden.
Investigators found videos of Gisele recorded by her own husband in which the woman was seen being sexually assaulted by strangers, unconscious due to the powerful medication she had unknowingly ingested. One of the recorded violations lasted at least six hours with a man.
