Maximum term of 20 years demanded in French rape trial for husband who drugged wife

Cătălin Roșioru

AVIGNON, France: French prosecutors said on Monday (Nov 25) they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France. Dominique Pelicot has since September been in the dock in the southern city of Avignon with 49 other men for organising the rapes and sexual abuse of his now ex-wife Gisele Pelicot . One man is being tried in absentia. The case has shocked a France still working