Pelicot, along with 50 other men, will face prison for repeatedly raping his wife, Gisèle, over the course of a decade.
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00:00Dominique Pellicot has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in a historic rape trial that
00:08has turned the victim, his wife Giselle Pellicot, into a feminist hero.
00:13Pellicot drugged and raped his wife for nearly a decade, also offering her unconscious body
00:19to strangers he had met online.
00:22In total, 50 men were tried in what became known as the Mazan rape trial.
00:28The trial triggered protest rallies around France in support of Giselle Pellicot, who
00:32said she hoped that by making the trial public she would help other women speak up.
00:38They kept up their efforts on Wednesday night, plastering messages across Avignon where the
00:43trial took place ahead of the verdict.
00:45I think it has changed society already along these four months.
00:52The day the trial started, we started to talk and talk a lot and think a lot.
00:58And we went through so many emotions.
01:01Activists say the three-month trial has sparked important debates around consent.
01:06Now they are calling for the country's legal definition of rape to be expanded to include
01:11specific mention of it.