France mass rape trial triggers soul-searching in Spain

A French court is expected to give its verdict this week in the case of Dominique Pelicot, 72, who has admitted drugging his then wife Gisele Pelicot, also 72, for almost a decade so he and dozens of strangers he recruited online could rape her. "This affair has had an important resonance in Spain, because here there is great sensitivity to the theme of violence against women," Marina Subirats, a sociologist and former director of the Women's Institute, a government body, told AFP. Spanish politicians...