The 72-year-old, whose story shocked France, was surrounded by police, her lawyers and her son Florian as she arrived at the courthouse. But her daughter, Caroline Darian, did not attend.

A rift has emerged between the victim at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history and her eldest children.

Husamettin Dogan, 44, was sentenced to nine years in prison at trial of 51 men last year that found them all guilty