Gisele blasts the 'cowards' accused.of her many rapes

A FRENCHWOMAN who was sexually violated by scores of men after her husband drugged her called them all "cowards" yesterday as she gave evidence for the last time.

- Peter Allen

Staring at her ex-husband Dominique and the 50 other men accused of raping her, Gisele Pelicot, 72, asked: "At what point, when you entered this bedroom, did Madame Pelicot give you consent? "

At what point, when you saw the inert body, did you not say to yourself that something abnormal happening in this room?

"I heard I was remote-controlled, I was drugged, I took Zolpidem [a drug used to treat insomnia].

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"For me, this is a trial of cowardice.

"Society needs to open its eyes to the fact we live in a macho, patriarchal society where rape is trivialised."