Gisèle Peliot returned to court in France on Monday, 10 months after a mass trial in which 51 men were convicted for rape.
One of those 51, had appealed the guilty verdict, seeking to overturn his conviction for raping Pelicot when she had been drugged unconscious by her husband has told a court he “never intended” to rape her.
The appeal trial is being held before the Court of Appeal in Nîmes, in the south of France.