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Gisèle Pelicot takes stand in French mass rape trial

She tells a court she wants women who have been raped to know that "it's not for us to have shame - it's for them".
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"Ms Pelicot said Dominique often used to cook meals for her and bring her ice cream after dinner - which is the method he later said he used to drug her: 'I used to say to him: how lucky am I, you're a darling, you really look after me.'"

51 men accused of raping her when she was passed out. There are 40 or more still unidentified. Aged 26 to 74. She's 72 and it started in 2011 (59). What 20s year old guy would say this is a great lay.

Defence arguments range from it's a sex game she volunteered for, she snored or moaned so it was consent, I didn't know what I was doing, and I was abused myself (husband's defence).

I'm sure the next trial will be for his daughter and daughter in laws.
 
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French mass rape trial: Abused Pelicot family torn apart in public

Gisèle Pelicot, 71, is the woman at the centre of this trial, but no-one has emerged unscathed in her family.
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Netflix, Amazon and Apple are probably knocking on the door already. Carl Jung couldn’t do enough psychoanalysis here.

“The Pelicots’ middle child, Caroline Darian, now 45, screamed her anguish at her father in court as she demanded to know the truth about photos found on his computer. Entitled ‘My naked daughter’, the images show her semi-naked and, she says, clearly drugged.”

She has founded a charity to highlight the dangers of drug-induced assault and published a book in 2022 detailing her family’s trauma. In it, she hinted at a rift with her mother, who she found had dropped off a bundle of warm clothes for her father in jail, weeks after his crimes came to light.

‘I couldn’t believe it,’ Caroline wrote. ‘She was still looking after the person who got her raped for a decade.”

She already had a book in 2022? 10 years of abuse on the mother. 70 plus men so around 7 a year. Plus abuse of the daughter. People must have been falling like flies when this guy disappears to drug people during family gatherings.

“Stifling sobs, Florian, 38, the youngest of the family…

…He also spoke of his longstanding suspicion he was the product of an affair his mother had in the 1980s, which was compounded by a faint but lifelong feeling that his father loved his siblings more than him.

…He said he would seek out a paternity test, adding it would be a “‘elief’ not to be Dominique Pelicot’s son.”

The mother had an affair?

“Through tears, Florian painted a desolate picture of what his life had become. His marriage to the mother of his three children, Aurore, has not survived revelations that Dominique Pelicot also surreptitiously took photographs of her.

Aurore, herself a survivor of incest, is having to live with the regret of not having listened to her instincts regarding Mr Pelicot.“

What is this? Alcoholics tend to gravitate towards other alcoholics? There must be a syndrome describing this.

“The eldest of the Pelicot children, David, is a burly man of 50 who bears a striking resemblance to his father. Naked photographs of his wife Celine, pregnant with their twin daughters, were also found among Mr Pelicot’s files. She was in the bathroom, snapped with a hidden camera.”

This must have been a full time job. He was also out taking photographs up women’s skirts.

“The trauma rippling through this family seems without end. David’s son, now 18, wonders what really happened when Dominique asked him to ‘play doctor’ as a child.”

F#ck. Little boys too.
 
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The 50 men accused in mass rape of Gisèle Pelicot

The men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot have been dubbed Monsieur-Tout-Le-Monde as they broadly represent a microcosm of French society.
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"My body raped her, but my brain didn't,"

If this defence holds up, Diddy and Jay Z might want to use it.

"In floods of tears, a woman called Samira said she has spent the last three and a half years 'looking for answers' as to why Jérôme V had gone to the Pelicots' six times. 'We had daily intercourse, I don't understand why he had to go look elsewhere,'"

...but you didn't have it completely passed out. You didn't know he was into kinky sex.
 
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Gisèle Pelicot removes all trace of husband in France mass rape trial

In the years before the mass rape trial that has shocked France, Gisèle almost caught Dominique Pelicot.
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"They were eventually able to identify 54 of them, while another 21 remained nameless.

Some of the men who were unidentified said in conversations with Dominique that they were also drugging their partners. 'That, for me, is the most painful part of the case,"' Mr Bosse Platière said. 'To know that there are some women out there who could still be victims of their husbands.'"

Shouldn't they start a sting operation?
 
America's decline.......not quite over yet.

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I live next to a highway. I walk underneath past it every day. Sometimes I walk along underneath it to get shelter from the elements like snow. On one end we have people who literally work in buildings right underneath the highway and countless balconies closer than a stone’s throw from the highway at vehicle level.

I was told the solution is to move to a rural area without vehicles but that might introduce other health issues.
 
Could be worse. You'd be freaked out if they started chanting Allahu akbar.
 
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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

With Chinese youth unemployment high, individuals are paying to go into offices and pretend to work.
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"Mr Zhou came across the Pretend To Work Company while browsing social media site Xiaohongshu. He says he felt that the office environment would improve his self-discipline. He has now been there for more than three months.

Mr Zhou sent photos of the office to his parents, and he says they feel much more at ease about his lack of employment.

While attendees can arrive and leave whenever they want, Mr Zhou usually gets to the office between 8am and 9am. Sometimes he doesn't leave until 11pm, only departing after the manager of the business has left.

He adds that the other people there are now like friends. He says that when someone is busy, such as job hunting, they work hard, but when they have free time they chat, joke about, and play games. And they often have dinner together after work.

Mr Zhou says that he likes this team building, and that he is much happier than before he joined."

You're paying to fake team build at a fake office doing a fake job? ...Isn't making random connections with other people in life called...life?
 
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Alberta rewriting order banning school library books to protect classics

"Dozens of additional books were also set to be inaccessible to students in kindergarten through Grade 9, including George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby."

There were sex scenes in 1984? I don't remember that.

I'd love to see a version of Gatsby sanitised - wasn't excess the whole point of the story?
 
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