The trial ended much as it did last year, pronouncing an unemployed builder guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot when she was in a drugged, near-comatose state.
It took the jury and the judges less than three hours on Thursday to condemn the man, Husamettin Dogan, for a second time. He was among the 51 convicted in a mass trial last year. The court sentenced him to 10 years in prison, adding one year to his previous sentence.
As she did at the end of the last trial, Ms. Pelicot stepped out of the courtroom into throngs of clapping and singing supporters. She made no public statement.
Testifying in court a day earlier, she vibrated with frustration, reacting to Mr. Dogan’s statement that he considered himself a victim who had been tricked into a crime.
“I am ashamed of you,” she said.
The case, first tried last year in Avignon, shocked the country and the world. Ms. Pelicot’s husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, admitted to having mixed crushed sleeping pills into his wife’s food and drink for almost a decade to rape her when she was unconscious. Then, he invited dozens of men he met online to join him, charging them nothing but regularly filming the encounters.
After a four-month trial, all of the accused were convicted, most for raping Ms. Pelicot, and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years, except for Mr. Pelicot, who received the maximum prison term of 20 years.
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