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Prosecutors seek 20-year term for main defendant in French rape trial
This court sketch created at the Avignon courthouse in Avignon, south-eastern France, on November 25, 2024, shows defendant Dominique Pelicot (top right) during his trial in which he is accused of drugging his wife Gisele Pelicot (bottom centre) for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France. — AFP pic
Monday, 25 Nov 2024 6:19 PM MYT

AVIGNON (France), Nov 25 — French prosectors said today they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France.

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AVIGNON (France), Nov 25 — French prosectors said today they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France.

"Twenty years is a lot because it is 20 years of a life... But it is both a lot and too little. Too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that were committed and repeated,” prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the court. — AFP

"Twenty years is a lot because it is 20 years of a life... But it is both a lot and too little. Too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that were committed and repeated,” prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the court. — AFP

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