Daniel Verdú

For 10 years, her husband drugged her so that more than 80 men could rape her while he filmed it all. In 2022, the case came to light, and two years later, Mr Pelicot and 50 of his attackers were convicted in a trial that Gisèle Pelicot insisted be public. The shame had to change sides. Now she tells her story in a book. We met in Paris with this lucid woman who has become a symbol of the fight against sexual violence

The French president defends a sovereign Europe in the face of Trump’s attacks and a landscape of ‘permanent instability’

Doctors had to operate on the patient with the help of bomb disposal experts. He could yet be charged with possession of ammunition

The French leader warns in a speech to the country’s ambassadors that the United States is ‘breaking international rules’, and asks them not to submit to ‘vassalage’

The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and insists that while his field can play a role in understanding it, taking antidepressants might be more effective in dealing with it than reading Socrates

The justice and interior ministers traveled to Marseille after the killing of the brother of an anti-drug politician and activist, comparing the threat of these organizations to terrorism

On the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in French history, the French-Chilean photographer, who spent two and a half hours in a hallway with 11 other people and a suicide bomber, believes it is time to turn the page

In his memoirs, now distributed to the French press, Juan Carlos I admits to being the victim of many ‘weaknesses’ and ‘errors of judgment in matters of love and friendship’

The man who ruled France from 2012 until 2017, still a Socialist Party heavyweight, celebrates the suspension of the pension reform and praises his party’s refusal to remove Prime Minister Lecornu: ‘We are, once again, a governing force’ 

The renowned consultant, businessman and writer believes that the best way to end the crisis would be for the head of state, whom he considers ‘unworthy’ of the office he holds, to resign 

Despite facing multiple legal proceedings, the former French leader — the first to enter prison — kept his political and business clout

The couple has filed a lawsuit against far-right influencer Candace Owens, who claimed that Brigitte Macron is, in fact, her own brother

Some 20 clans divide up the island and exploit its natural and economic resources through intimidation and violence. Civil society has decided to stand up to them

The government is considering building high-security prisons and establishing jails overseas as a solution to a saturated system that is failing to address rising crime

The Interior Minister will meet with figures from the sector to improve security after the latest daylight kidnapping attempt in Paris

The group of transgender women who met the late pontiff on a number of occasions mourn his loss and hope that the Church will continue to welcome them as he did

The prelate and deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highest authority in the pursuit of pedophiles within the Church, believes that the next pope will not be able to ignore victims’ cry for justice

For a long time, a sector of the Church directed and financed from the US attempted to depose the Vatican leader in order to impose its own identity-based ideology

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine pontiff who initiated a historic process of reforms in the Church in 2013, also unleashed an unprecedented war with the ultraconservative sector of the Catholic world

Well known for his role as the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, the veteran politician urges Europe not to panic and to stand firm against threats from a US president who is ‘surrounded by billionaires and speculators’

The 29-year-old president of the RN has no links to the party’s dark past or to the Le Pen surname other than being Marine’s protégé

The leader of the National Rally, banned for running from office for five years for embezzlement of EU funds, denounces a ‘political decision’

A European diplomatic communication indicates that London and Paris are pushing for a military deployment to test their strength as the US progressively steps back

Joël Le Scouarnec described the 299 rapes or sexual assaults he committed over 24 years in detail and stored his notes away as if they were patient files. Given what appears to be a culture of silence in the family around his abuse, the horror of his accounts provides the indisputable evidence to put him behind bars for a very long time

The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy

EL PAÍS spoke with the daughter of the man who drugged his wife for years and handed her over to dozens of men to be raped. In the book ‘I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again’ she describes the horror of the discovery. And, in this interview, she regrets that the trial did not allow her to find out if she was also one of his victims