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Less than a year after the landmark verdict in a drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisele Pelicot into a global icon, an appeals court is set to hear the case of a man challenging his conviction.
Husamettin Dogan, sentenced to nine years in prison last December, denies he intended to rape Pelicot. He argues that he was deceived by Dominique Pelicot, Gisele Pelicot’s ex-husband, who drugged his wife and offered her to strangers online before filming the assaults.
The 44-year-old construction worker goes on trial Monday in Nimes, in southern France, on charges of aggravated rape by administering substances that impair judgment or self-control,…
