As 2024 nears its end, FRANCE 24 takes a look at world events that marked the year including the ongoing wars in Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East, the French legislative elections and the US ...

German investigators have uncovered Telegram chat groups numbering 70,000 members worldwide in which individuals share explicit advice on sedating and sexually assaulting women.

A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers say they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape ...

The Frenchman found guilty of drugging and raping his then-wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a ...

Lawyer to Dominique Pelicot, Beatrice Zavarro, has said that his client will not appeal against his conviction for drugging ...

In a year in which we may have seen the start of the gradual decline and death of democracy, there have been some women who ...

51 men were jailed for a total of 400 years for the heinous crimes against her, with Dominique handed a sentence of 20 years.

Fourteen of Pelicot's co-defendants, as well as Pelicot himself, pleaded guilty to rape at the trial. Others denied the charges against them and said they thought that a husband's consent sufficed.

Gisele Pelicot, 72, has become a symbol of female courage and resilience during the three-month trial of her now ex-husband ...

A lawyer for the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot says he won’t appeal his sentence for drugging and raping her and allowing ...

At least 17 of the 49 men convicted of raping or sexually assaulting Gisèle Pelicot have said they will appeal. Dominique ...