Prosecutors seek 20-year term for main defendant in French rape trial

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French prosectors said on Monday they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France.

“Twenty years is a lot because it is 20 years of a life… But it is both a lot and too little. Too little in view of the seriousness of the acts that were committed and repeated,” prosecutor Laure Chabaud told the court.

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