what she decided to do is very very important because now we cannot ignore the violence that can some men can resort to 71-year-old French woman gizel pelu took the stand this week in an unprecedented Mass rape trial that has received worldwide attention just a warning these next details are disturbing over the course of a decade piku was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband he invited dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious biku’s then husband has admitted wrongdoing but the majority of the other 50 defendants deny the rape charges some say they thought her husband’s cons was sufficient others belied they were tricked piku has become a symbol for the fight against sexual violence after opening the trial to the public a verdict is expected in late December she decided not to give up and not to just lie down and just accept that yeah I’ve been I’ve been raped by multiple people and uh it’s something that I can never get up from she decided to fight we’re showing her that we believe her that we are so um admirative of her courage