The law is considered as a further effect of the case of Gisèle Pelicot, the woman served on a platter by her own husband to ...

France's Senate is expected to grant final approval on Wednesday to a bill redefining rape and sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act. This crucial legislation emerges directly from the ...

France’s justice watchdog finds genetic sample taken in 2010 links Gisèle Pelicot’s husband to violent attempted rape of a woman in 1999.

Dominique Pelicot, who was convicted or organizing the mass rape of his then-wife Gisèle Pelicot, is being investigated for additional crimes: a rape and a murder in 1991, and an attempted rape in ...

In the wake of the Pelicot trial, France adopted a new law in October 2025 defining rape and other sexual assault as any ...

The trial took on special resonance in France, a year after a court found Dominique Pelicot and dozens of other men guilty of ...

PARIS(AP) — France’s Senate gave its final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and ...

A historic move to change French criminal law would bring its legislation in line with many other European countries ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Senators approved changes to France's rape law on Wednesday to include consent, bringing the legislation more into line with more than a dozen other European countries in a move that ...