French mass rape victim's ex husband says one of the accused knew

Paris [ France ], October 8 (ANI): It was the same criminal investigator, the same medical expert and the same perpetrator-turned-witness, wearing the same grey jacket, the New York Times reported.

In separate accounts, they told an appeals court how Gisèle Pelicot had been drugged by her husband, Dominique Pelicot, at the time, and then raped by him and many other men, at his invitation.

Gisele Pelicot allowed a mass rape trial centring on what happened to her to be open to the public last year, awakening a huge conversation in France and forcing some important changes in the country. But time seemed to stand still in the courtroom on Tuesday, the second day of an appeal by one of the men convicted in that trial, Husamettin Dogan, 44. He was among 51 men convicted in the first trial