Gisèle Pelicot, the French girl who earned worldwide recognition after publicly testifying at her mass-rape trial final yr, has been given France’s high honour.
The 72-year-old was named knight of the Legion of Honour on an inventory introduced forward of France’s Bastille Day.
Pelicot waived her proper to anonymity in the course of the high-profile trial in opposition to her husband who had drugged and raped her, along with inviting dozens of strangers to additionally abuse her over almost a decade.
Pelicot was amongst 589 different individuals given France’s highest award on Sunday.
She attended virtually day-after-day of the trial, which ended final December with Dominique Pelicot, 72, being given a most 20 years in jail for aggravated rape, after confessing to drugging her and recruiting round 50 males to rape her whereas she lay comatose in mattress.
“I need all girls who’ve been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too,” Pelicot beforehand informed reporters, including that she wished to make “disgrace swap sides” from the sufferer to the rapist.
French President Emmanuel Macron has publicly paid tribute to Pelicot as a trailblazer, including that her “dignity and braveness moved and impressed France and the world”.
Based on her lawyer, a memoir detailing Gisèle Pelicot’s story in her personal phrases shall be printed early subsequent yr.
