Dominique Pelicot faces up to 20 years in prison, the longest possible sentence, for drugging his wife of 50 years, Gisèle Pelicot, over almost a decade to rape her, and for offering her unconscious body to strangers he met online.
Fifty other men, aged between 27 and 74, have been cross-examined over the course of the 12-week mass rape trial that has left France deeply shaken.
All but one of the men have been charged with aggravated rape, attempted rape or 3exual assault.
The French media have called them “Mr. Every Man” because of how varied, and how ordinary, the men appear.
