Gisele Pelicot to face 'rapist' recruited by husband in court Vivian SongOctober 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM 0 Gisèle Pelicot will be face to face with one of the men convicted of raping her in a French appeals court Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPAEFE/Shutterstock Gisèle Pelicot will be face to face with one of the...
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Vivian SongOctober 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Gisèle Pelicot will be face to face with one of the men convicted of raping her in a French appeals court - Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Gisèle Pelicot will be face to face with one of the 51 men convicted of raping her in a French appeals court on Monday.
Husamettin Dogan, 44, is the only man convicted of raping Ms Pelicot between the years of 2011 to 2020 who has appealed against his nine-year sentence.
The other 16 men who had appealed against their convictions following the verdict in France's biggest mass rape trial withdrew their requests over the past year.
Ms Pelicot, 72, was drugged by Dominique Pelicot, her then-husband of almost 50 years, and raped by at least 70 other men whom he had enlisted off a chat website known to attract predators and criminals.
Pelicot also filmed the assaults and stored them on a hard disk in a folder named "abuse".
Gisèle Pelicot was drugged by Dominique Pelicot, her then-husband, and raped by at least 70 other men
Ms Pelicot's decision to waive her right to anonymity and open the trial to the public because "shame must shift to the other side" turned the grandmother into a global feminist icon.
On Monday, Dogan, a Turkish-born construction worker, will maintain his innocence in the Nîmes court of appeal.
During last year's trial, he insisted that he believed he was participating in a consensual sex act with a libertine couple. He claimed Pelicot had set up a scenario in which his wife would "pretend to be asleep".
"I don't accept being called a rapist, I'm not a rapist, it's too heavy to bear," Dogan told the court.
Unlike last year's trial, which was held before a panel of judges, the appeals case will be tried before a jury, which will be required to watch the videos.
'His opponent is not Gisèle Pelicot, but Dominique'
Dogan visited the Pelicot home in Mazan, outside Avignon, on the night of June 28-29 2019 after being recruited by Pelicot online.
In court, he alleged that Pelicot dictated the sexual acts he commit against his wife, and that he tried to prevent Dogan from leaving.
Jean-Marc Darrigade, Dogan's lawyer, told the French news channel BFMTV: "His opponent is not so much Gisèle Pelicot, but rather Dominique Pelicot, whom he considers to have created a trap into which he fell and which means that he is now fighting against a conviction."
Pelicot, who is serving a 20-year sentence in prison, will serve as a witness in Monday's trial.
Béatrice Zavarro, Pelicot's lawyer, told Agence France-Presse that he contests Dogan's version of the story and evoked her client's first words at last year's trial: "I am a rapist, and all of the men in this room are rapists."
A psychological assessment of Dogan described the man as having a "propensity for abnormal practices in the sexual sphere" and an attraction to threesomes.
Dogan, who is bisexual, said he led an "intense" sex life outside his relationship with the mother of his son.
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