An audible sigh of frustration drifted across the packed seats of courtroom “Voltaire” in Avignon’s Palace of Justice, as the lead judge, dressed in a scarlet robe, announced an unexpected ...

The family of multiple rape victim Gisele Pelicot has been 'torn apart ... French village, and had stop using her married name. This means she has moved away from the former family home in Mazan ...

Last week, Gisèle Pelicot, 72, told the court that her calm demeanour masked a “field of devastation”, triggered by the instance, four years ago, when a French policeman had informed her that ...

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Two local women, loading their car on a narrow street in Mazan, said they’d seen the names and had recognised at least three of them.