Gisèle Pelicot next to a collage reading 'Gisele, women thank you' near the Avignon courthouse for the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their Mazan home, Avignon, France, on December 4, 2024. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP
Gisèle Pelicot, the survivor of mass rapes organized by her husband at their home in southern France, is releasing her memoirs about the trial that turned her into an internationally celebrated figure in the movement to end violence against women.
Le Monde published some extracts of the original French on Tuesday.
Pelicot was drugged with tranquilizers for a decade by her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, then raped by him and dozens of men he recruited online.
In the 2024 trial in Avignon that garnered global attention, she declined the option to hold it behind closed doors, saying she wanted the world to know what she had been subjected to.
