A week at the Pelicot rape trial: ‘It’s his house, his bedroom, his bed, his wife. I trusted this man’

Two retired truck drivers, an ex-machinist, a joinery fitter and an IT technician, aged from 40 to 74, appeared before the criminal court on charges of aggravated rape, accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged by her husband.