“ENTIRE SORDID SOCIAL SYSTEM”
Public prosecutor Dominique Sie had earlier on Thursday requested 12 years in jail for Dogan.
“As long as you refuse to admit it, it’s not just a woman, it’s an entire sordid social system that you are endorsing,” Sie told him.
“There needs to be an evolution for you, and for society, from rape culture to a culture of consent.”
One investigator told the court on Tuesday that images of the abuse found on Dominique Pelicot’s hard drive showed Dogan had stayed at the Pelicot house for at least “three hours and 24 minutes”.
Footage shown to the court featured him penetrating an inert Gisele Pelicot.
At the original trial, a panel of five judges issued the verdicts against Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-defendants last year in the southern city of Avignon.
This time in Nimes, it was a people’s jury of five men and four women who decided.
The other 49 men accused of abusing Gisele Pelicot received sentences ranging from three years in jail, including two suspended, to 15 years behind bars for a man who visited the Pelicot home six times.
Another man, who did not assault Gisele Pelicot but repeatedly abused his own wife with Dominique Pelicot’s help, was sentenced to 12 years.
Gisele Pelicot, on Wednesday, called for “victims to never be ashamed of what was forced upon them”.
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