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Ex-husband asks 'forgiveness' from family
Hindustan Times Pune
|December 17, 2024
AVIGNON, FRANCE: The French man who has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife asked forgiveness from his family on Monday and hailed the courage of his now ex-spouse during his trial.
"I would like to start by hailing the courage of my ex-wife," Gisele Pelicot, her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot said in his final statement to the court ahead of the verdict later in the week.
"I regret what I did, making (my family) suffer... I ask them for forgiveness," he said, asking the family to "accept my apologies".
In a trial that shocked the country, Dominique Pelicot, 72, has admitted to drugging his then wife Gisele Pelicot for almost a decade so he and strangers he recruited online could rape her.
This story is from the December 17, 2024 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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