"There is rape and then there is rape," asserts a lawyer representing six co-defendants in the trial of a Frenchman over the recruitment of strangers to rape his drugged wife. "As soon as there is a criminal intent, as soon as there is proof that the person who committed the acts of rape was aware of committing the acts of rape, there is rape, otherwise there is no rape. And that's what we've been saying from the outset for all our clients," Guillaume de Palma tells reporters in Avignon. SOUNDBITES