The rape trial that shocked the world will be discussed in a French court once again, after one of the men convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot appealed, insisting that he is “not a rapist.”

One of the men found guilty of sexually abusing Gisele Pelicot is set to appear in court in the southern French city of Nimes.

Husamettin D. was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape. He claims that Pelicot’s then-husband, Dominique, led him to believe that she had consented.

The 44-year-old argues he is innocent, with his legal team appealing both his conviction and the sentence. He visited the Pelicot home once in 2019.

He is one of 17 men who appealed their conviction and the last one still maintaining his innocence.

In total, 51 men were convicted in the trial that sent waves all around the world.

Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in jail for drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to abuse her over almost a decade.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 hour ago

    Whether one is “identifying” as a criminal, has ZERO bearing on whether one has committed criminal action!


    Dear Gisele Pelicot, please hold your ground, for the sake of all the women who’ve been subjected to same-category violations.

    For yourself AND others, together…

    No matter what support you need to be able to withstand it, instead of just dropping it all

    ( I’ve survived enough in this world to KNOW that often it makes more emotional sense to drop everything & let evil win … for one’s self … but then it grows more-powerful … ),

    PLEASE TELL THE GOOD-FOR-YOU PEOPLE WHAT SUPPORT YOU NEED: ASK THEM, … TELL THEM, … BEG THEM, … MAKE THEM,

    BUT GET THE SUPPORT YOU NEED, to be able to endure standing against evil’s machiavellianism, please.

    The more ground they gain, the more ground they can gain:

    it’s non-linear, & it is a feedback-loop ( same as ClimatePunctuation is, same as ideology-highjacking-a-country is ).

    The less ground the machiavellians/gaslighters gain, the more ground that abused-women have.

    Please keep holding-up, for the sake of many women in the world.

    And anyone who honestly can support her, please please do-so.


    It’s the same at all scales:

    the individual-scale, the whole-country scale ( like Palestine & Ukraine & Sudan & the Congo region ),

    continental-scale ( as it will be shortly, in the Americas, & in Europe, & in Asia, & in the Middle-East+Africa, once the tipping-point is crossed, possibly in late 2025 ),

    & global ( as it will be, once the “conquering” of regions is done, & the 4 remaining factions of the world have nowhere left to go, except through each-other, in the early 2030’s ).

    Keep unbreaking, keep getting-up again, keep keeping-going, keep warring for uprightness.


    ( I feel like shit telling you this, because while I’ve unbroken my life enough to no-longer be much-of-the-time-catatonic-with-brain-injury ( I spent years that way ), that the psychiatric-profession gaslit me to accept was somehow “incurable mental-illness” instead of literal-brain-decimation…

    I’ve only been able to put me together-enough to offer perspective for help, … but not been able to uncripple/unbreak my life, yet.

    I can’t even reliably coordinate physically, yet.

    But there’s no honest or strategic alternative:

    IF I just smash/destroy my life, to escape the endless-abuse of existing-in-it,

    THEN abuse won,

    & my karma becomes hell-karma, because I let the enemy win, so therefore my continuum/soul gets caught-in lives rigged right from the beginning to that enemy-victory-leverage, to cause my continuum/soul to understand consequences-of-its-choices…

    MY soul chose to indulge in being karma’s punching-bag, because it didn’t understand that consequences are real.

    IT assumed that it could make-believe away everything, or ignore-away everything: inexperience/ignorance is terrible management substitute-for-competence, right?

    & I’ve been paying the price for it, for more than 1/2 of a century ( including 7+y of outright homelessness ).

    & … looking around this world … my experience isn’t significantly better, or worse, than global-average, is it?

    ALL these continuums/souls are getting themselves caught in incarnations, while making-believing that “consequences aren’t real: they can’t hurt me-the-soul” … but the consequences crush/destroy the someones, the lives, that unconscious-souls get caught in…


    It isn’t the SurfaceMinds ( minds which dissipate every few hours ) which are the problem.

    The 2 minds underlying SurfaceMind are the problem: unconscious-LifeMind ( begins forming in conception, & shatters in death ), & underlying-that is unconscious-Continuum/Soul.

    Trying to make one’s unconscious-LifeMind notice/learn anything … is like being made of blown-dust & trying to MAKE bedrock understand something it WON’T know or understand…

    Years/decades of persistence in right-direction can make some learning happen, in the more-fundamental-layer-of-mind.

    But nothing less than that works.

    Certainly not the making-believing or pretence pushed by our culture of “entertainment” brainwashing…


    All this extra-context is simply to try to communicate that *the problem isn’t you, or me, or any-particular-individual,

    … it is unconscious-LifeMind, and it is humankind’s-collective-unconscious-LifeMind-ignorance, which is indellible-at-individual-human-scale* and digging-in against that is the REAL context, see?

    And THAT is why I’m asking you to intentionally ask & get all the real support you need.

    In my life nobody can provide the support that I need:

    prejudices has annihilated those bridges: there’s no human-closeness left, no such category of trust, of that kind: I do it alone or die having failed to do it.

    I’m hoping that your-life is sooo utterly-different from mine, in nature, that it is possible for you to have close human friendship, honest-human-trust, & honest total support, & that you can have it, & can lean on it.

    ( IF I succeed in breaking-through, THEN it’ll have been worth it, though “me”-personality will have been annihilated forever: the continuum/soul currently caught in “me” will have become incapable of ever making such a mistake, EVER again: the soul will have outgrown its retardedness. )

    I’m hoping that you succeed, with whatever help you need, in breaking the evil trying to blot-out your truth…

    Each their own path, their own way, but the fundamental-enemy’s the same: evil’s evil.

    Narcissism / machiavellianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / nihilism / sadism / systemic-dishonesty / displacing-objectivity / displacing-considered-reasoning…

    Each of those dimensions of human-evil has to be recognized on its own, & it has to be countered, outright, its most-effective-way.

    Many times we are subjugated-by-evil because we fail to understand that we’re caught in “The 2-Problem Problem”:

    … that there are actually more than 1 dimensions of “problem” that we’re caught-in, & we’re trying to solve “the” problem, which is why we’re failing again & again & again…

    When something won’t fix, then it’s a good time to step back & see if one has been caught in The 2-Problem Problem…

    If that set-of-dimensions-of-human-evil helps you clarify what each of the players concerting evil against your life is meaning, then you can clarify your fight’s requirements, thereby stacking-odds for your validity’s ( & meaning’s ) survival.

    That’s leverage.

    I hope it helps you enough.

    I’m sorry I couldn’t offer more than mere perspective: it’s the only thing I’ve got. )


    Salut, Namaste, Kaizen, & Gratitude for your holding-up as you already have,

    _ /\ _

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    9 hours ago

    What a piece of shit. If you don’t have enthusiastic consent you don’t have sex. You don’t just take somebody’s word for it that their drugged and nonresponsive wife is cool with you fucking her. Jesus christ.