CHALON-SUR-SANE, France — A French woman went on trial on Monday for killing the man who raped her for years as her stepfather before becoming her husband and pimp.
The case has mobilized defenders of women against male violence, with hundreds of thousands of people signing a petition for her release.
“I had to put an end to it,” Valerie Bacot, 40, wrote in her book published last month called “Everybody Knew”, adding: “I was afraid, all the time.”
The trial, which opened in Chalon-sur-Saone in France’s central Burgundy region, is due to run through Friday.
Bacot was 12 when her mother’s partner, Daniel Polette, who was 25 years her senior, raped her for the first time.
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