A French judge has reversed a ruling in the trial of a man who is accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over a decade.
Lawyers for Gisèle Pelicot, 72, had earlier appealed against the judge’s initial decision to only show video of the crimes to lawyers and the jury.
She has waived her right to anonymity in the trial, enabling the shocking details of the case to be heard in public.
Her lawyers argued the video should be seen to draw attention to the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse. They hailed the latest ruling as a “victory”
Man this lady is brave as fuck
Those weak French, amirite?
Them absolutely rioting over a small increase in retirement age made me feel shame as an American. I love how willing the French are to remind their government of what happens when it gets out of line. Like, “don’t make us break out the guillotines.”
The French are not weak.
The men who raped her were French too, and they outnumber her at least 50 to one, so your low level troll doesn’t even work the way you think it does…
Was “Those weak French, amirite?” trolling, or was it making fun of people who falsely call French people ‘weak’ as a form of nationalistic bigotry?
I read it as the latter. “The French are still weak,” would be clear bigotry, the ‘amirite?’ makes me lean more towards making fun of them.
Of course, we can’t definitively say due to the lack of clear tone in written language.
They might have been steamrolled in back to back world wars, but they used to be a threat to takeover the world.
The French definitely won WWI, do they not teach history in schools anymore?
They didn’t win WW1, they just lost less hard than Germany.
No, not really.
Also internally they’ve had some of the most badass revolutions.
They were in like 3rd place after British and Spanish.
depends what time you’re talking about. napoleon fucked shit up.
Which is why the lourve is full of Italian art, apparently