A placard which reads “Gisele, Women thank you”, in support of French woman Gisele Pelicot, the victim of a mass rape orchestrated by her then-husband Dominique Pelicot at their home in the southern French town of Mazan, hangs on the gates of the courthouse on the first day of the appeal hearing filed by one of the 51 people convicted in her rape trial, in Nimes, France, October 6, 2025. REUTERS/Alexandre Dimou