The Paris prosecutor’s office has requested five years in prison, with three years suspended, for French director Christophe ...

Paris prosecutors have requested a five-year prison sentence for filmmaker Christophe Ruggia over sexual assault charges ...

By Marc Leras AVIGNON, France (Reuters) -French prosecutors asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique ...

The prosecution asked on Monday that Dominique Pelicot be given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for drugging and raping his then-wife, Gisele Pelicot, and recruiting others to rape her.

Prosecutors have requested sentences of up to 15 years in jail for 49 co-defendants in the trial of Dominique Pelicot, who is ...

The longest jail term requested by prosecutors today - excluding the 20-year demand made for Mr Pelicot - was for Jean-Pierre ...

AVIGNON, France (Reuters) -French prosecutors asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organised the repeated mass rape of his then-wife by knocking her unconscious ...

“There’s no surprise in asking for 20 years, and that’s what I personally expected. But it’s still a shocking and heavy sentence for a man who’ll be 72 in a few days,” she said.

The defendants and alleged rapes are so numerous that the prosecutors were expected to take three days to summarize the evidence and detail the verdicts and sentences they want. In the first cases ...