Feminists and other critics say the sentences handed down in France’s mass rape trial are too lenient with some calling them shameful. The trial has shocked the nation of France and made international ...

• Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty in a mass rape trial that stunned France. He was handed a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for repeatedly raping, and enlisting strangers to abuse his ...

A French court has reduced the sentence of one of the teenagers convicted in the antisemitic gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl outside Paris in 2024, shortening his nine-year sentence by two ...

Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was handed a 20-year sentence on Wednesday, after being found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children, over a 25-year period which spanned from 1989 to ...

A Paris prosecutor has requested a five-year sentence for French film director Christophe Ruggia who is accused of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor. The sentence, ...