Women living in the French village at the center of trial “don’t feel at ease”
Life has utterly changed for women living in Mazan, the town in the southeast of France where Dominique Pelicot organized the mass rape of his wife over 10 years.
The 49 other men convicted of abusing Gisèle Pelicot all lived within a 30-mile radius of the house she shared with her then-husband.
CNN visited Mazan and spoke to local women before the trial concluded.
Annette Dumont said that “it could very well happen again tomorrow in another place.”
“I don’t feel at ease here in the streets,” another resident, Nedeljka Macan, who has lived in the town for more than a decade, told CNN.
Describing the area as “quiet and nice,” Macan said that now residents “don’t know if somebody who is in the next shop is one of these men. It changed everything.”
Responding to the verdict on Thursday, Macan told CNN she has been “glued” to her television.
“I am shocked because the sentences are much shorter than what we had expected. All those men who are walking free today, it’s an insult! We thought that as it was such a high-profile case, justice would be served but it hasn’t been. We will protest again tomorrow in front of the courthouse.”
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