Gisèle Pelicot to sue Paris Match journal for invasion of privateness | Gisèle Pelicot rape trial

Gisèle Pelicot, who survived almost a decade of rapes by dozens of males, will sue Paris Match journal for invasion of privateness, her attorneys stated on Thursday.

In its newest version, Paris Match revealed seven photos of Pelicot accompanied by a person described as her companion strolling within the streets in her new dwelling city.

Pelicot acquired worldwide popularity of waiving her proper to anonymity within the trial final 12 months of her ex-husband and different defendants.

“It’s not us who ought to really feel disgrace, however them,” she stated of the perpetrators.

Dominique Pelicot, her former husband, drugged her for almost a decade so he and dozens of strangers he recruited on-line might rape her. Dominique Pelicot, who admitted the costs, saved a whole lot of movies of the assaults on his pc in a file entitled “abuse”. A French court docket sentenced him to twenty years in jail in December.

“Each time the intimacy of our consumer’s private life is violated, we’ll react and search a court docket determination,” the lawyer Antoine Camus stated on Thursday. Camus stated it was “stunning” and “disappointing” that Paris Match would secretly take photos of Pelicot, “whose ordeal was the topic of three,000 photos and movies”.

He accused the journal of “having discovered nothing from the four-month trial”.
Contacted by Agence France-Presse, Paris Match had no remark.

Pelicot was included in Time journal’s listing revealed on Wednesday of the world’s most influential folks in 2025.