Gisèle Pélicot, drugged by her husband so others could rape her, is a woman 'still standing'

Gisèle Pélicot, drugged by her husband so others could rape her, is a woman 'still standing'

![Gisèle Pélicot (center) arrives at the Avignon courthouse on September 5, 2024.](https://img.lemde.fr/2024/09/05/0/0/6000/4000/664/0/75/0/5406160_1725548397257-704828.jpg) "The facade is solid, but inside, it's a field of ruins." Upright in the center of the criminal court's pretorium, in southeast France, Gisèle Pélicot stood on the witness stand. She's a woman in the midst of rebuilding herself; who marvels at being "still standing." "Nothing bothers me," she tells the judge. Not the pressure of the 51 men, most of them wearing surgical masks, sitting behind her, …