Gisèle Pelicot Details Assaults in First TV Interview

Gisèle Pelicot, the 73-year-old French woman who became a symbol of resilience against sexual violence, shared harrowing details of her ex-husband's crimes in her first televised interview since his 2024 conviction. Speaking on France 5 this week, Pelicot recounted the moment police revealed that Dominique Pelicot had drugged her unconscious and invited dozens of men to assault her over nearly a decade in their home in Mazan, a village in southeastern France.

The revelations came on November 2, 2020, after police summoned Dominique Pelicot for questioning following an incident where a supermarket security guard caught him secretly filming up women's skirts. Accompanying him to the station, Gisèle Pelicot was unprepared for what followed. Officer Laurent Perret warned her before showing photos and videos of the assaults. "I am going to show you photos and videos that are not going to please you," he said, according to her account. The images depicted an unconscious woman in a suspender belt being assaulted by unknown men. "That's you in this photo," Perret told her.

Pelicot described her initial disbelief and dissociation. "I don't recognize myself in those photos. I said,...