A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case.

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Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years for raping his wife, after admitting he drugged her and invited other men to join him in violating her. Most of the other men were also convicted of raping her.

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The French rape trial is over. The verdicts have been levied. And Gisèle Pelicot’s image has become a symbol of female strength around the world.

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Prosecutors say that, for almost a decade, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife to rape her, alongside dozens of other men he invited to abuse her.

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Society knows more about abuse now, but it may not matter to the judicial system.

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