Overview

• During the appeal hearing, Pelicot told Husamettin Dogan she never gave consent and urged him to take responsibility.
• Investigators said 14 videos and 107 photos from 2019 show Dogan penetrating an inert Pelicot and indicate he stayed for about 3 hours 24 minutes.
• Prosecutors asked the court to toughen his first‑trial nine‑year sentence, with multiple reports citing a 12‑year request.
• Dogan denies rape, arguing he thought he was joining a consensual libertine scenario and says Dominique Pelicot deceived him.
• The retrial comes after the 2024 Avignon judgments, including a 20‑year term for Dominique Pelicot, with the other convicted men not appealing.