Overview

• Appealing his nine-year sentence, 44-year-old Husamettin Dogan told the court he was lured by Pélicot’s ex-husband and felt trapped, while maintaining he did not commit rape.
• Investigators recovered 107 photos and 14 videos from the 2019 night in question, with footage shown in court depicting Dogan penetrating an unresponsive Pélicot and trying to force oral sex.
• Lead investigator Jérémie Bosse-Platière testified he had no doubt Dogan knew the victim’s condition and said timestamps showed he stayed at least 3 hours and 24 minutes.
• Dominique Pélicot admitted drugging his wife and organizing assaults over nearly a decade and is serving a 20-year sentence, while 49 other convicted men have not appealed.
• Dogan faces a potential sentence of up to 20 years on appeal, and his original sentence remains on hold pending the Nîmes court’s decision.