World News @lemmy.world RandAlThor @lemmy.ca 4d ago

Ex-husband jailed 20 years in French mass rape trial

www.bangkokpost.com Ex-husband jailed 20 years in French mass rape trial

AVIGNON, France - A court on Thursday sentenced a French man to the maximum term of 20 years in jail for committing and orchestrating the mass rapes of his now former wife, Gisele Pelicot, with dozens of strangers he recruited online.

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Her face in that thumbnail, so happy, and I think a bit at peace too. True complete peace with the horror that she’s faced will be a long time coming, but she’s channeled that immediate rage into justice. And started a larger movement to combat the ingrained misogyny in their (ours?) culture. It’s way too short a sentence for him, but he probably won’t make it out alive.
- It's the maximum legal sentence, and 20 years is absolutely no joke
A real shame. With that many assaults, it really should have been a longer sentence.
- He got the maximum sentence.
  
  depends on if they had chosen to sentence him for 51 crimes or one crime with 51 incidences. They should have sentenced the husband to 51x20 years, or 1020 years in prison.
Many defendants arrived at the hearing with their bags packed ready for prison. One of them was in tears as he hugged his companion before entering the courtroom.

Aww, boo fucking hoo. 🖕🏾
- You can bring a bag to prison??
  
  European prisons are different from American ones because they weren't modeled after slave pens
- 🎻
Y'all ever notice how much male sexuality is performative for the benefit of other men? I'm not saying that they're gay, they just seem more motivated by peer approval and status than touching a girl.

I recently saw an interview with a stripper who said that the dudes who wanted attention from the girls used $100 bills and were discrete, while the dudes who tossed 100 $1 bills were more interested in the attention of their buddies.
- Extrapolating this incident to male sexuality at large is idiotic.
  
  The guy is right though. Testosterone peaks as a result of social circumstances.
- Another interesting thing, in that same vein, is asexual or lesbian women that just go along with being in heterosexual relationships with men because it's 'normal' or convenient.
- There's a weird thing with "conquest", pulling the ladies, and being somewhat deviant that's tied to manliness and straightness for some reason.
  
  Laughs in lesbian
- "Hurr durr, everyone I don't like is a closet homosexual."
  
  They literally said that they're not saying they're gay. It's the second sentence for fuck sake.
  
  Well, they should stop being republican, then.
"okay but women not wanting to date men is just overreacting" - a sentiment we see even here on fucking Lemmy.

Fifty different men. He also trained these men how to rape their wives.
- “okay but women not wanting to date men is just overreacting” - a sentiment we see even here on fucking Lemmy.
  
  We've dodged a lot of the usual garbage from Reddit over here, but that one definitely stuck around. The only negative comments I've received on any of my lemmy accounts are guys furious when you point out men are more violent partners. Like they just cannot admit that as a society the 'boys will be boys' mentality was used to allow a lot of awful behaviours like rape. Hell, Revenge of The Nerds has a rape scene in it and people only recently started to speak out against it.
  
  So, sorry for the downvotes, but at least we all know it's a bunch of insecure men. Maybe they'll learn, maybe they won't, but you have allies here in the mean time.
- I can't imagine wanting/needing to rape my wife. There are so many layers to that I don't even know where to begin wrapping my brain around it.
  
  I dated a woman who badly wanted me to roleplay raping her. I knew I could never get into it, and if that's what she wants she should be able to have it I guess, so I broke up with her instead.
- "okay but women not wanting to date men is just overreacting" - a sentiment we see even here on fucking Lemmy.
  
  I was thinking it really wasn't that bad on here as you described, but I just read some other comments under this post and I was dead wrong. Disappointing.
  
  EDIT: The other comments seem to have been removed
- The irony of people downvoting this... Can't see the forest through the trees. Or more accurately, can't see further than the tips of their dicks.
  
  They're still confused why women chose the bear.
  
  Misandry is ok but misogyny isn't?
  
  And ya'll wonder why people think there's a double-standard...
- When we were dating I told my to be wife she should not trust any man even me.
  
  Personally, I have raped exactly the number of women in my life that I have wanted to. 0.
  
  Just because you are a man, it does not automatically make you untrustworthy, but it is prudent to exercise caution with all people in general—we are unpredictable apes.
- If you dictate such a profound life decision based on some bizarre cause célèbre, you are overreacting. If you just make reactionary comments on the Internet, sure, carry on.
  
  I'm not sure what you're trying to say
Good
- Is it good enough?
  
  At 72 it's probably a life sentence.
  
  For him? Probably yes. But what about the other 50 assholes?
seems way toooo lite a sentence
- It's the maximum sentence in france, I believe.
  
  Sounds like a great place to be a criminal
- For him, it will be life.
20 years is oz of pot numbers
- This is France
  
  Sir this is a Wendy's
  
  Whoosh?
  
  (In case this doesn't translate, this indicates you completely missed that this is the point of the joke. It is funny in a very very dark way that my country will put people in jail for 20 years over a few doses of marijuana while France picks the same time frame for gang-raping and drugging a woman. In most instances I think the french numbers would be more sane, but in this case I think those men deserve life in prison because they cannot be redeemed and must be removed from society.)

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