France: Appeal in Gang-Rape Case

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/europe/france-appeal-in-gang-rape-case.html

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A public prosecutor on Friday appealed the rulings of a French court on Wednesday in a gruesome gang-rape trial, calling many of the 10 acquittals in the case and the sentences for the four convictions inappropriate. The case involves two women from a poor suburb outside Paris who said they were repeatedly raped, often by as many as two dozen men at once, between 1999 and 2001. Of the 14 defendants, 4 were convicted of gang rape; 2 of them received one-year prison sentences, one received a six-month prison term and one a suspended sentence. Several government ministers had voiced concern with the rulings, and women’s groups had reacted angrily.