The French trial of a man who drugged his now ex-wife so he and dozens of strangers could rape her unconscious ended Thursday with all 51 defendants convicted.
Dominique Pelicot, 72, who admitted that he drugged his then-wife with sleeping pills from 2011 to 2020 so that men he recruited online could rape her in her own bed, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape.
The other suspects, aged 27 to 74, came from all walks of life, including an unemployed man, a truck driver, a journalist, a firefighter, an engineer and an electrician.
Their apparent ordinariness led to them being dubbed “Monsieur-Tout-Le-Monde” (Mr Everybody) in the French media. They were sentenced to prison terms of three to fifteen years.
All were charged with the aggravated rape or attempted aggravated rape of Giselle Pelicot, except Jean-Pierre M., who was accused of repeatedly abusing his own wife after drugging her with the help of Dominique Pelicot.
Under the terms of the sentencing, six suspects were allowed to walk out of court freely. Only the sentence imposed on Dominique Pelicot was fully in line with what prosecutors demanded.
The remaining defendants’ prison sentences were in all cases less than what prosecutors sought, and in some cases as much as half. The prison sentences of two of the defendants were suspended.
Here are all the defendants and their prison sentences.
– Dominique Pelicot, 72, retired, 20 years in prison
– Jean-Pierre M., 63, retired, 12 years old
– Joseph C., 69, retired, three years
– Didier S., 68, retired, five years
– Patrick A., 60, unspecified occupation, six years
– Jacques C., 73, retired, five years of which three years suspended
– Hugues M., 39, former tiler, five years, two of which are conditional
– Andy R., 37, unemployed, six years
– Jean-Marc L., 74, retired, six years
– Saifeddine G., 37, truck driver, three years
– Simone M., 43, construction worker, nine years
– Philippe L., 62, gardener, five years, two of which were suspended
– Paul G., 31, laborer, eight years
– Ludovick B., 39, shopkeeper, seven years
– Mathieu D., 53, former baker, seven years
– Quentin H., 34, prison guard, seven years
– Patrice N., 55, electrician, eight years
– Husamettin D., 43, nine years old
– Cyrille D., 54, nine years old
– Nizar H., 41, unemployed, 10 years
– Redouan E., 55, self-employed nurse, eight years
– Boris M., 37, operational agent at a transport company, eight years
– Cyril B., 47, truck driver, nine years old
– Thierry Pa., 54, ex-mason, eight years
– Omar D., 36, maintenance agent, eight years
– Jean T., 52, roofer, eight years
– Mahdi D., 36, employee at a transport company, eight years
– Ahmed T., 54, eight years old
– Redouane A., 40, earned a living doing odd jobs for nine years
– Lionel R., 44, employee of a large store, eight years
– Florian R., 32, delivery boy, seven years
– Gregory S., 31, construction worker, eight years
– Abdelali D., 47, cook, eight years
– Adrien L., 34, location manager, six years
– Cyprien C., 44, unemployed, six years
– Karim S., 40, IT technician at a bank, 10 years
– Jean-Luc L., 46, worker, 10 years
– Christian L., 56, firefighter, nine years
– Thierry Po., 61, refrigeration engineer, for serious rape, nine years
– Nicolas F., 43, independent journalist, eight years
– Cendric V., 44, restaurant manager, nine years
– Joan K., 27, 10 years old
– Vincent C., 43, employee, 10 years
– Fabien S., 39, employee in integration projects, 11 years
– Hassan O., 30, under arrest warrant and tried in absentia, 12 years
– Charly A., 30, temporary worker, 13 years old
– Cedric G., 51, IT technician, 12 years
– Jerome V., 46, supermarket employee, 13 years old
– Dominique D., 45, truck driver, 13 years old
– Mohamed R., 70, retired, eight years
– Romain V., 63, retired, 15 years old
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