Increase sentence for Gisèle Pelicot rapist, prosecutor tells appeal court

Dominique Sie recommends 12-year jail term after Husamettin Dugan's refusal to take responsibility' for assault

The French state prosecutor has called for the jail term of an unemployed builder to be increased after he contested his conviction for raping Gisele Pelicot after she had been drugged unconscious by her husband.

Dominique Sie, the lead state prosecutor, told Nimes appeal court that Husamettin Dogan's claims of innocence were an example of how rape culture was still widespread in society as part of archaic" forms of male domination".