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, 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.

In one out of every three sexual assaults in Spain, the victim has been drugged. Now, a group of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has taken an important step towards developing a tool that will easily detect if someone has slipped drugs into a drink in the near future.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) have arrested a 26-year-old man for robbing other men using chemical subjugation. He met the victims through a dating app, and they would meet up in Barcelona. The man arrested always wanted to go to the other men's homes, and once he did, he would slip drugs into their drinks. The first of the four victims lost consciousness after the first sip. When he awoke, the man had stolen several pieces of jewelry, computer equipment, and cash. "He wanted the victim to lose consciousness," says Sergeant Jose Elizalde, an investigator for the Eixample police force. But that wasn't enough for the detainee: he stole computer equipment to access the victims' banking credentials and make transfers to their accounts.