Overview

• The appeal concerns Husamettin D., 44, who received a nine-year sentence in December and argues he was misled into believing Pelicot consented.
• The Nîmes proceedings are scheduled to start on Monday, October 6, and are expected to run three to four days, according to attorneys.
• Gisèle Pelicot will attend the hearing, with her lawyer saying she is determined to see the process through to close this chapter.
• Dominique Pelicot, serving a 20-year sentence for drugging his wife and facilitating assaults, has been called to testify as a witness.
• Fifty other men were convicted in Avignon with terms of roughly three to fifteen years, and although up to seventeen filed notices of appeal, all but this single case were withdrawn.