{"id":46814,"date":"2026-02-16T04:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gisele-pelicot-tells-bbc-newsnight\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:26:42","slug":"gisele-pelicot-tells-bbc-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gisele-pelicot-tells-bbc-newsnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Gis\u00e8le Pelicot tells BBC Newsnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gis\u00e8le Pelicot has told BBC Newsnight&#8217;s Victoria Derbyshire that her strength comes from her &#8220;DNA&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Pelicot was at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history. For almost a decade, she had been drugged unconscious by her husband Dominique Pelicot and raped by dozens of men he had recruited on internet chat rooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She made the remarkable decision to let the world know who she was, waiving her legal right to anonymity, before the trial began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In this interview, she reveals she found it &#8220;inconceivable&#8221; that the man she shared her life with &#8220;could have committed these horrors&#8221; and how she is now rebuilding her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c80jvkem8lro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gis\u00e8le Pelicot has told BBC Newsnight&#8217;s Victoria Derbyshire that her strength comes from her &#8220;DNA&#8221;. Ms Pelicot was at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history. For almost a decade, she had been drugged unconscious by her husband Dominique Pelicot and raped by dozens of men he had recruited on internet chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46816,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46814\/revisions\/46816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}