Legal systems in Europe are often geared more toward rehabilitation than punishment, but the prison terms surprised many
The case centers on Pelicot’s ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, who has pleaded guilty to drugging his wife for nearly a decade to facilitate her rape by numerous men.
French prosecutors have recommended the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organized the repeated mass rape of his then-wife Gisele Pelicot.
Pelicot’s public trial has sparked a reckoning on rape culture and patriarchy in France