Gisele Pelicot, the Frenchwoman who became a feminist hero during a mass rape trial last year, returned to court Wednesday to tell the one man who still denies assaulting her that he must "take responsibility" for his actions.

The 72-year-old's former husband has admitted to drugging her with sedatives and inviting dozens of strangers to rape and abuse her over nearly a decade in a case that shocked the world.

Last year, a court in southern France handed Dominique Pelicot, 72, the maximum term of 20 years in jail. He and 49 other men convicted in the case are not appealing their sentences.

But one man, 44-year-old Husamettin Dogan, has maintained his innocence, arguing that he, too, is a victim of Dominique Pelicot.

Gisele Pelicot, who famously argued that it should be the perpetrators

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