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The Court said that "any non-consensual sexual act constitutes a form of sexual violence" [6] and emphasised that "consent to marriage could not imply consent to future sexual relations. Such an interpretation would be tantamount to denying that marital rape was reprehensible in nature". [ 7 ]
[10] [11] In 2025, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in H.W. v. France that under French law and the European Convention on Human Rights, "marital duties" do not and cannot include an obligation to have sex with one's spouse without one's consent (which is not presumed to exist within marriage), overruling earlier case law from lower ...
The case has stirred protests, renewed scrutiny of France's rape laws and spurred other sexual assault accusers to come forward in a nation that has sometimes balked at the so-called #MeToo movement.
Most were charged with one count of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault but a few were charged with multiple offences, including in one case six counts of rape. One man was charged, not with the rape of Gisèle, but with drugging and raping his own wife. Dominique was also charged with the same offence. [5]
France's Catholic Church called on prosecutors on Friday to open a probe into sexual assault accusations against the late French priest Abbe Pierre, who was a lifelong campaigner for the poor and ...
The French woman - identified as Ms H.W, born in 1955 - brought her case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2021 after exhausting legal avenues in France almost a decade following the ...
The trial took place in May–July 2004 before the Cour d'assises, a criminal trial court, of the commune Pas-de-Calais where 12 children were recognised victims of rape, sexual assault, corruption of minors and pimping. 10 of the 17 accused adults were sentenced to prison.
French actor Adèle Haenel confronts director in sexual assault trial. Laura Gozzi - BBC News. December 11, 2024 at 10:36 AM. Adèle Haenel, 35, quit the French film industry last year [Reuters]