since September this courthouse in southern France has been the focus of attention both in France and Beyond internationally because it’s here that 51 men are standing trial on charges of having raped jizel pelu it’s a mammoth and important trial it sparked debate in France and Beyond about rape culture and sexual violence and today was a major part turning point because French prosecutors started to lay out the verdicts and sentences that they would like to see against the accused they asked for the maximum sentence that’s 20 years imprisonment for aggravated rape against Dominique pelor he is jizel pelor’s former husband and he admitted that while they were married he was sedating and then raping his wife while she was asleep and unwitting and also asking other men to come around to the house and rape her too