Gisèle Pelicot (Willingen, 1953) made a courageous decision. She insisted that the trial against her husband and the 50 other men who raped her be held in open court. For 10 years, she had been raped in her home after Mr. Pelicot systematically subjected her to a cocktail of drugs. Her body suffered the consequences of the rapes, and her brain the effects of the sleeping pills. She remembered nothing, but he had recorded everything on video, which became the key evidence in the trial. Her case made headlines around the world and gave rise to a new feminist slogan: "Shame must change sides." Her courageous decision led to changes in the French Penal Code, placing consent at the center of the issue. She is the living embodiment of the resilience and strength of a woman who knows she has survived horror. And she refuses to bow her head, for herself or for others. But she doesn't like to consider herself an icon, but rather someone who awakens consciences. She has visited Barcelona for to present his autobiography entitled A hymn in life (Now Books).

Gisèle Pelicot has not yet finished dispensing justice. After the whole world saw the faces of her fifty sexual abusers in a public trialBecause "shame must change sides," she is now touring Europe with two messages as transformative as that one. "Victims must speak out, they must report, they must not isolate themselves: being heard and acknowledged can help you recover," argues this woman who doesn't want to be labeled "a heroine, a symbol, or an icon," but rather sees herself as "a conscience-awakener." "I know where I come from and I know who I am. I'm just an ordinary woman who allowed herself to be supported by psychologists, lawyers, family, associations..." she says.

Gisèle Pelicot, the woman whose husband drugged her to rape her along with other men, has published A Hymn to Life, a book that tells her story. Isabel Galí, TV3's correspondent in Paris, was able to interview her during the book's promotional tour. From that conversation, two reports emerged, for Telenotícies migdia and for Telenotícies vespre, which were broadcast this Tuesday. Two pieces in which Galí selects Pelicot's most relevant statements to condense them into the short time allowed by the news format.Gisèle Pelicot is the interviewee every journalist would want. She is one of the most relevant figures of 2025, not only in France but worldwide. Her attitude has been a global example that has caused a turning point in the media's approach to sexual assault: she is the architect of shame changing sides. Furthermore, her case has forced a modification of the Penal Code in France.For all these reasons, it is disappointing that the public television's opportunity to interview Pelicot, in the hands of an excellent journalist like Isabel Galí —who also covered the trial—, has been reduced to two two-minute reports. If we calculate the duration of Pelicot's interventions in each, they do not add up to even one minute in total: 37 seconds in the midday report and 50 seconds in the evening report. On the 3Cat platform, a seven-minute piece can be found that collects Pelicot's responses. They have erased Isabel Galí and missed her questions to sell each statement as a headline.It is a shame and a missed opportunity. But, above all, it is indicative of the little value given to journalism at TV3. At the channel, only the interviews from entertainment shows conducted by the network's stars are promoted with great fanfare. Everything is reduced to spectacle and morbid curiosity. But not everyone needs an orchestra or a kitschy set to do their job well.Telenotícies and the 3CatInfo initiative. But it has been a formal matter, a showcase. A lot of vertical screens and cameras, but no nose or criterion to dignify the newsroom and to give prominence to journalists who are not part of the presenter lineup. Why haven't we been able to see Isabel Galí's full interview with Gisèle Pelicot on any TV3 program? Why this lack of generosity? We have dehumanized journalism. Everything must fit neatly into the TN, well cut and diced for social media, seeking a virality that strips journalism of its personality. Triviality has taken precedence over what is important. We have lost the broad view, the value of dialogue, the tone, and the well-done craft. If a TV3 journalist interviews Gisèle Pelicot, do not waste her work.

After a trial that made headlines around the world and sentenced her ex-husband to 20 years for drugging her and handing her over to a hundred men to be raped, Gisèle Pelicot publishes her memoirs this Tuesday. A hymn in life (Now Books). The book, originally written in French, is being published simultaneously in more than twenty countries and has been translated into 22 languages, a rare feat in the publishing world. "I have rarely been the first editor of a book translated into 22 languages. It is also unique in that it is a book with a significant social impact," explained Sophie de Closets, the book's editor and president of Flammarion, the French publishing house that has put 150,000 copies on sale, on BFMTV.

On Tuesday, the book in which Gisèle Pelicot offers her firsthand account of the gender-based violence she suffered will be published: as is well known, for ten years her husband, Dominique Pelicot, drugged her to offer her to more than eighty men, who raped her while he filmed everything. The so-called Pelicot matter It shocked French and Western society, all the more profoundly as more of the abhorrent acts came to light during the trial, in stark contrast to the serenity, lucidity, and dignity she displayed in publicly confronting the horror she had suffered in her inner circle. The book is being published simultaneously in twenty countries and bears a title that is at once ironic, melancholic, hopeful, and terrifying: Te la joy de vivre.

Gisèle Pelicot, The French woman whose husband drugged her with medication so that at least a hundred men could rape her while she was unconsciousShe breaks her silence more than a year after the trial that sentenced Dominique Pelicot to the maximum penalty of twenty years in prison. The woman has not given any interviews or participated in any public events since the trial. It made her a role model for feminismBut he is about to publish his memoir, A hymn in life (Ara Llibres), in which she recounts her love story with Pelicot, the shock of discovering the truth, and everything that followed.

Thursday night TV Documentaries (La 1) broadcast My husband, a rapist in Gisèle PelicotA powerful documentary offering a fresh perspective on a much-discussed case, available on RTVE Play, focuses on other, often overlooked, victims: the wives, mothers, and daughters of some of the men convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. These men contacted Dominique Pelicot and sexually abused his chemically drugged wife. They were identified in recordings of the rapes committed by Gisèle's husband. These individuals had other women around them who also suffered the consequences of their actions. The documentary features interviews with six of these women: four partners, a mother, and a daughter. They sit facing the camera, but with their backs to the lens. They request anonymity for fear of being associated with the case. “The first monster was Dominique Pelicot. The second monster was the rapists. And the third monster was us,” says Samia. “In the midst of this horror, they’ve forgotten about us.” Initially, they all speak of their husbands, their father, or their son from an everyday perspective. All describe them positively except for one, who acknowledges the personal and sexual behavioral problems she already saw in her husband before learning he was involved in the case. Five of them discovered what these men had done at the time of their arrest, through the police.

When a woman is the protagonist of an event, public discourse will focus on her body and her psychology, as an emanation at the service of male fantasy. Categorizing women as "monstrous" is a strategy of distortion of the facts and classic misogyny. In the same week, Donald Trump has called Greta Thunberg "crazy," "troublemaker," "angry," "enraged," and the top brass of thealt-right Catalan dedicated to Eva Piquer, who has presented her book Defamation, adjectives like "weak" or "furious." Why do they find an angry woman so threatening? Why this gesture of infantilizing women as if they weren't sovereign over their actions? The angry woman is an uncontrollable woman, insubordinate to the leader or the military logic of control. The angry woman organizes her arguments from strength and discourse, not from the attributes traditionally associated with women, such as compassion, discretion, or sentimentality.

Gisèle Pelicot has said it again. But the worst part is that she had to do it again. After the massive trial that left her exhaustedAs she acknowledges, and as is evident after everything she's been through, Gisèle Pelicot has had to return to court because one of her rapists, the only one convicted, has appealed the sentence and refuses to admit his sexual aggressor status. The man, his face conveniently covered, believes he was "tricked" because he believed he was engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, even though Dominique Pelicot, the victim's predatory husband, insisted that all the men who raped his wife knew she was sedated and that she never gave consent to anyone. In fact, as we already know, it wasn't until after hundreds of rapes that she came to discover that the ailments she suffered had to do with the hell her husband had forced her to live in. One of those who kept that hell alive is Husamettin Dogan, the 44-year-old man who now wants to be recognized as innocent. "The only victim in this room is me, not you. Take responsibility for your actions at once. I feel ashamed for you," a once-again questioned Gisèle Pelicot retorted. And when Housametin Dogan was asked what he meant by rape, he replied: "Someone tied up and forced." Obviously, he can answer that to aid his defense, even if it's indefensible, but how many people still believe that rape is "someone tied up and forced"? And how could Gisèle Pelicot have to face one of her executioners again and say: "When will you admit it? Take responsibility for your actions!" Gisèle Pelicot's return to the news doesn't seem as significant as it was when her case first came to light. But I would say it should be given even more importance. And it isn't being given more importance. But I find it very relevant that the woman who had to endure it all, who stood up for it, and who said that shame should change sides, had to remind one of the men who participated in the barbarity to "account for his actions!" Because this is the key to explaining the difficulty victims face in a system that still fails to protect them. Rapists are considered "normal" people who don't accept their actions because in the society we live in, their actions can be considered "normal," like themselves. How many people still believe, even now, that rape is "someone tied up and forced"?

The only one of the 51 convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot who appealed the initial sentence, a 44-year-old man, was found guilty of aggravated rape this Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison, one more than he had been sentenced to in the first-instance ruling. For four days, the rapist presented himself as a victim and denied raping Pelicot, the same strategy used in the initial trial. He neither convinced the court then nor the jury that tried him this time.

Gisèle Pelicot, The French woman who was raped by a hundred men while she was unconscioust, drugged by her husband, has had to return to court a year after the mega-trial that convicted 51 of the men who abused her. On Monday, the appeal process for one of her rapists, a 44-year-old man who was sentenced to nine years in prison, began in Nîmes. He is the only one of those convicted who appealed the sentence. Neither the victim's ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in prison –the maximum sentence–, nor have the other convicts appealed.

Only two of the thirty men involved in The massive child pornography and prostitution ring uncovered almost a year ago They will go on trial for sexually assaulting minors. Although the police investigation was closed with 16 other arrests and 14 other suspects pending identification, sources close to the case consulted by ARA explained that only two men were identified during the investigation, and they will be the only ones to be prosecuted. Both remain in pretrial detention, and one of them is TLM. The electrician for whom the Prosecutor's Office has requested a sentence of 107 years in prison to rape a 12-year-old girl in care, film her to offer her to other pedophiles, and arrange with them where and when the sexual assaults would take place. The second defendant is a resident of Madrid.

They say it was Caroline Darian, Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, who suggested to her mother that she make her story public, months before the trial began. The idea that shame should change sides was an initiative of the executioner's daughter, the predator Dominique Pelicot. In fact, Darian is another of his victims because her photographs also appeared in the rapist's image archives, but in her case the abuse could not be proven.

Caroline Darian, the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, has denounced her father, Dominique Pelicot, convicted of drugging and raping his wife for a decade, for "sexual assault." She herself said this in a "message to all the victims" to say that "one should never give up." The complaint, filed on Wednesday, includes five crimes, including "the administration of psychoactive substances" and "sexual abuse" that her father "clearly committed," she told Agence France Presse on Thursday, when she made the complaint public.