Sentence Increased for Man in Pelicot Rape Appeal

Government-critical narrative

The Pelicot rape case lays bare France’s entrenched rape culture, where societal norms and institutions still protect perpetrators more than survivors. It reveals how violence is minimized, empathy is rationed and systemic apathy persists even amid #MeToo’s supposed reckoning. The case forces France to confront not just one man’s crime, but a collective failure to see rape as the moral emergency it is.