{"id":8224,"date":"2024-12-11T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2024-12-11T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:06:30","slug":"the-50-men-accused-in-mass-rape-of-gisele-pelicot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=8224","title":{"rendered":"<h2>The 50 men accused in mass rape of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8225\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-11-at-8.03.15-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-11-at-8.03.15-AM.png 582w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-11-at-8.03.15-AM-275x300.png 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They are young, old, burly, thin, black and white. Among them are firefighters, lorry drivers, soldiers, security guards, a journalist and a DJ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">These are the 50 men accused of raping Gis\u00e8le Pelicot at the behest of her husband, Dominique Pelicot, 72, who drugged her for a decade with prescription sleeping pills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The fact they broadly represent a microcosm of French society means they have been dubbed\u00a0<i id=\"monsieur-tout-le-monde\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Monsieur-Tout-Le-Monde<\/i>\u00a0(Mr Everyman).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Next week they are due to be sentenced, at the end of a trial that started in September. If found guilty, collectively they face more than 600 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7vvj8gymyo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7vvj8gymyo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}