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Can you imagine if she were a young woman who had consumed alcohol

Audrey Darsonville says it is a victim's obstacle course

Many defendants are married and have children

Defendants work as truck drivers construction workers tradesmen salesmen

There is a journalist nurse prison guard and tech specialist among defendants

More than 40 defense lawyers fill the room

Last week many began to cross-examine Ms Pelicot and reveal strategies

They say they were tricked lured by her husband for three-way encounters and told she was pretending to be asleep

More than a dozen men pleaded guilty

Most men do not dispute sex with Ms Pelicot but say they did not think it was rape

Defendants range in age from 26 to 74

Defendants are thin fat bearded smooth-faced

He invited men to rape her while she was drugged

Monsieur Pelicot is under investigation for two earlier crimes including one from 1999

Not all men in videos have been identified

He is also being investigated for rape and murder of another woman in the early 1990s

Monsieur Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison

Gisèle Pelicot decided to forgo anonymity and make the 2024 trial public.

Dominique was caught secretly filming up women’s skirts at a supermarket in southeastern France.

Police discovered videos and photographs of his wife being assaulted by at least 70 men after arresting him.