French mass rape case: Woman calls husband and others ‘degenerates’ [Video]

Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped by dozens of men recruited by her husband, on Wednesday called the men standing trial “degenerates” while attempts from some defense lawyers to question her credibility caused outrage in the courtroom.

The trial in the southern French town of Avignon of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of raping his wife has shocked the world. The case has also triggered protests across France in support of Gisele Pelicot, who has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence.

“These men are degenerates. They committed rape,” Gisele Pelicot, 72, told the courtafter her now ex-husband Dominique and one of his presumed chief accomplices, Jean-Pierre Marechal, gave testimony on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

“When they see a woman sleeping on her bed, no one thought to ask themselves a question? They don’t have brains?,” she said, adding: “Forgiveness does not exist.”

Dominique Pelicot, …