Gisèle Pelicot, who grew to become a logo for girls’s rights in France in the course of the rape trial in opposition to her ex-husband and dozens of accomplices, has obtained France’s highest civic honour.
Pelicot was named knight of the Legion of Honour on a listing revealed within the official gazette on Sunday.
Pelicot’s ex-husband was sentenced to twenty years in jail on the finish of final 12 months for aggravated rape, in a landmark case that horrified France and the world, and reignited the controversy on legal laws on sexual violence.
Dominique Pelicot repeatedly drugged his then-wife, abused her and supplied her to dozens of strangers to rape over a interval of just about 10 years.
A court docket within the southern French metropolis of Avignon additionally sentenced 50 co-defendants in December to jail phrases starting from three to fifteen years.
Gisèle Pelicot had insisted that the trial be held in public to make sure that rape and the abuse of girls grew to become the main target of public debate far past France.
