As political leaders hailed the #trial as a turning point in the battle against #rape culture and victim shaming, Pelicot, 72, said on Thursday that she had never regretted her decision to waive her right to anonymity in order to hold the trial in public.

As crowds of supporters gathered in the French city of Avignon to cheer her on, she said outside court that on the final day of the months-long trial she was thinking “of the unrecognised victims,whose stories often remain in the shadows”

2/3