As Gisèle Pelicot faces one of her rapists in court, what has changed in France?
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BBC For over a decade, Gisèle Pelicot's husband drugged her and invited other men to come to their home and rape her while she was unconscious
France's mass rape victim, Gisèle Pelicot, is returning to court on Monday to face one of her attackers, the only man who is appealing against last year's trial verdict in which a total of 51 accused were convicted of raping her as she lay, drugged by her husband, in their family home. At the time, Madame Pelicot's defiant public stance was seen as a potentially catalytic moment in the fight against sexual violence. But in France, that optimism appears to be wilting. "I'll smash your head in if you don't leave now," snarled a man standing outside a medieval church in Mazan, the picturesque town where Gisele and Dominique Pelicot once lived.
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