{"id":485660,"date":"2025-10-09T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:44:13","slug":"increase-sentence-for-gisele-pelicot-rapist-prosecutor-tells-court-of-appeal-gisele-pelicot-rape-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485660\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase sentence for Gis\u00e8le Pelicot rapist, prosecutor tells court of appeal | Gis\u00e8le Pelicot rape trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The French state prosecutor has called for the jail term of an unemployed builder to be increased after he contested his conviction for raping Gis\u00e8le Pelicot<\/a> after she had been drugged unconscious by her husband.<\/p>\n

Dominique Sie, the lead state prosecutor, told the court of appeal in N\u00eemes that Husamettin Dogan\u2019s<\/a> claims of innocence were an example of how rape culture was still widespread in society as part of \u201carchaic\u201d forms of \u201cmale domination\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sie said: \u201cNow we must change rape culture to a culture of consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gis\u00e8le Pelicot outside the courthouse. Photograph: Christophe Simon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dogan, 44, a married father, was sentenced to nine years in prison last year for raping Pelicot in her bed when she was in a comatose state in June 2019. He is the only one of 51 men found guilty in a high-profile trial<\/a> last year to have appealed against his conviction and is undergoing a retrial in southern France.<\/p>\n

Sie recommended the jury should find Dogan guilty and increase his sentence to 12 years, because he \u201cabsolutely refuses to take any responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s ex-husband, Dominique<\/a>, one of the worst sex offenders in modern French history, admitted to crushing sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety medication into his then wife\u2019s food and inviting dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious in their bedroom in Mazan<\/a>, Provence, between 2011 and 2020. Pelicot told the appeal trial<\/a> he sought men online in a chatroom entitled \u201cWithout her knowledge\u201d and then told them by phone: \u201cI\u2019m looking for someone to abuse my wife after I\u2019ve put her to sleep without her knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state prosecutor said video evidence showed Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s limp body, unconscious and snoring in a comatose state while Dogan committed rape. Dogan had told the court he did not commit rape, just \u201csexual acts\u201d. He said Gis\u00e8le Pelicot\u2019s husband had invited him into her bedroom and said it was OK. He said he was manipulated by Dominique Pelicot.<\/p>\n

Sie said Dogan\u2019s intransigent stance was a clear illustration of persistent rape culture and male domination.<\/p>\n

Sie said to Dogan in his final comments: \u201cAs long as you refuse to admit it, it\u2019s not just a woman, it\u2019s an entire sordid social system that you are endorsing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Dominique Sie said the appeal by Dogan meant \u2018shame has not yet changed sides\u2019. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Gis\u00e8le Pelicot<\/a>, 72, became an international feminist hero after she waived her right to anonymity in the trial last year, saying: \u201cShame must change sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sie turned to Gis\u00e8le Pelicot in court and said the fact that Dogan had appealed against his conviction and refused to take responsibility showed that \u201cshame has not yet changed sides. Society is maybe in the process of that, perhaps driven by the collective awareness brought by the exposure of your case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The verdict is expected on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The French state prosecutor has called for the jail term of an unemployed builder to be increased after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-485660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115344275180141348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}