Thousands of people took to the streets in 30 French cities and Brussels on Saturday to protest rape and sexist violence and to support Gisèle Pélicot, a woman in her early 70s whose husband of 50 years is on trial for drugging her periodically and inviting dozens of men into their home to rape her while she was unconscious.

Pélicot has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence in France when she decided to make the trial of her husband and 50 other men public to ensure that “no woman suffers this.”

“We are all Gisèle,” protesters chanted in Paris, according to Le Monde. “Rapist we see you, victim we believe you.”

Tens of thousands of people demonstrating across France to support 70-year-old Gisele Pelicot, who has become a brave symbol for insisting on a public trial for her husband who drugged and raped her with 50 other men for a decade. French women are enraged. pic.twitter.com/y53IItLPzn

The crime was discovered when her now ex-husband Dominique, a 71 year old who has plead guilty to drugging and raping his wife, was caught taking photos up the skirts of women in 2020. As part of that investigation, police uncovered a USB drive with a file labeled “abuse,” which included more than 20,000 photos and videos of........

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