Public prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the packed courthouse in Avignon, southern France, on Monday that the sentence would be “long” but “not enough considering the serious nature of these acts.”

They said there were 72 individuals suspected of abusing Gisele. 50 men were tracked down and are on trial alongside Mr Pelicot. In addition to Dominique Pelicot, there are another 50 men on trial. Most of the defendants are charged with aggravated rape.

French prosecutors asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organised the repeated mass rape of his then-wife by knocking her unconscious with drugs and inviting dozens of strangers to abuse her in the family home.

Channel 5 is preparing a documentary about France's mass rape trial and its victim, 72-year-old Gisèle Pelicot.

A mammoth rape trial in France is moving into a new phase with prosecutors setting out the verdicts and punishments they want for 51 men men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband.

A Town on Trial' will look at Ms Pelicot, a 72-year-old woman drugged by her former husband and abused for a decade by at least 70 strangers he had recruited online.

France will launch reforms to help women who fear they have been drugged and then raped, including state-funded test kits, Prime Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday, in the midst of a mass rape trial that has shocked the country.

French prosecutors have demanded a 20-year jail sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who is accused of drugging his former wife Gisèle for a decade and inviting 50 men recruited online to rape her. Mr Pelicot,

The public prosecutor has demanded prison sentences of between 4 and 20 years for the 51 defendants in the trial concerning drugging and years of sexual abuse in southern France. The public prosecutor's office on Wednesday demanded the maximum sentence of 20 years for aggravated rape only for the main defendant in the case,