Defence lawyers plead for defendants in French mass rape trial • FRANCE 24 English
Lawyers for dozens of defendants in a French mass rape trial begin their closing arguments Wednesday after prosecutors demanded lengthy jail terms for the suspects.The main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, has admitted enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious. FRANCE 24 journalist Carys Garland reports from Avignon.
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Thank you for your excellent coverage of this important trial.
It is the Defences job to defend…however, they are defending the indefensible….his age is irrelevant…he took ten years of her life, and inflicted absolute horror on Gisele….eyes on you France….mind how you go…..and France 24, you and the BBC would do well to accept, I'm NY Toms very British/Brazilian future wife MD
because here for these cases its a premeditated things
murder vs manslaughter is the parallel of other crimes
Ok, the poor rapist was "scared", so he shouldn't go to prison. Right.
"We raped her, but we did not mean to." Adult males not taking any responsibility for their actions.
How can any man claim they did not know? Most women move while having sex – if you are unconscious you do not move.
Actions are what we are all judged on, not intent.
These men don't deserve any extenuating circumstances.
0:22 in *absentia!!!
What a load of rubbish. There's a woman on a bed not moving, not responding, and you have s-x with her. You immediately know something is not right. This woman is not willingly participating. Not one of those men called her husband out. Not one went to the police, not one tried to protect her. Shame on them all. All should go to prison.
Oh, the old #LookWhatYouMadeMeDo defense – "But for the husband I met on the website for rapists who drug their victims w/o consent, I never would have stuck my d*ick into a comatose woman. " They have no shame.
If this happened in India, most comments will be victim blaming and making fun of the women.
Courts are absolutely there to educate by showing justice has been done. So others don’t do the same crime. That’s why it’s public!!
Their intention was to rape her. She had been drugged unconcious and they knew she had not consented. Whether they knew she would be unconcious when they got there or not, she was unconcious and she had not consented, so at that point if you are not a rapist you leave and call the police, and if you are a rapist you have sexual intercourse, which we know they did because there is a video of it. I'm shocked at the lawyers putting these defences forward. They are doing it because they don't think intent can be proved, and therefore they could get their clients off and then what. The town has 50 rapists wandering about it.
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