Avignon, France, Sept 29, 2024 (AFP) - Defence lawyers in French rape trial tread fine line

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2024-09-29

Gisele Pelicot enters the courtroom to applause from the public gallery. But the warm welcome sometimes transforms into jeers when defence lawyers representing dozens of suspects in the mass rape trial arrive. The French woman's former husband, who has admitted to the allegations against him, is accused of enlisting men to rape his drugged wife over nearly a decade, a case that has shocked the country and turned Gisele Pelicot, 71, into an icon.......

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