Overview

• The three-day hearing begins Monday in Nîmes for Husamettin D., the sole appellant from the 51 men convicted in the Avignon trial.
• Gisèle Pelicot, 72, plans to attend, after waiving anonymity in the first trial that relied on extensive videos recorded by her then-husband.
• Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to the maximum 20 years, is expected to testify as a witness in the appeal.
• Husamettin D., given nine years in the first instance, maintains he thought the encounter was consensual roleplay, a defense many co-defendants had advanced before withdrawing their appeals.
• The case continues to shape policy, with proposed French legislation defining consent as voluntary and conscious and measures under way to bolster responses to drug-facilitated assaults, including court-admissible toxicology tests.