00:00With her son by her side, Giselle Pellicot makes the well-trodden path into court.
00:10She tells reporters this is the final stretch.
00:14The 71-year-old has listened to 10 weeks of harrowing evidence.
00:18This was her final say.
00:20For me, this is the trial of cowardice.
00:24It is time for society to look at this macho, patriarchal society and change the way it
00:29looks at rape.
00:31The court's been told disturbing details of how her ex-husband Dominique drugged and
00:36raped her and invited dozens of strangers to do the same for almost 10 years.
00:44I told him we should not leave this hearing without him having said exactly the reasons
00:49why he acted like that against his wife.
00:52Ms Pellicot only learned of the abuse four years ago, after police arrested her husband
00:57for upskirting women, then discovered hours of video of him and others abusing his wife
01:03at the family home.
01:05Dominique Pellicot told the court he was sexually abused as a child, but said it didn't excuse
01:11anything.
01:12For the first time, he offered a motive, that he wanted to control women.
01:17He also denied touching his daughter Caroline, prompting her to shout across the courtroom,
01:23you are lying, you will die lying.
01:26The trial has sparked a nationwide debate on whether France's rape laws do enough to
01:31protect victims.
01:33The court is expected to deliver its verdict and sentences by late December.
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