For almost a decade, Dominique Pelicot He offered it to his wife they will mistreat her repeatedly. As she explained to investigators, she did it because she liked to see how other men touched her. In total, they were 92 rapes of 50 different men.
Gisèle Pelicot, 71, was still unconscious. Her ex-husband first drugged her with anti-anxiety drugs and the chemical submission was so powerful that even today she doesn’t remember anything that happened. “When he woke up, my father explained to him that I had lost consciousness, I was very tired” says the victim’s daughter, Carolina Darian.
Pelicot acted with impunity between 2011 and 2020 in Mazan, France, until police discovered him by chance. Four years ago, he was arrested for recording under the skirts of several women in a supermarket. While searching her computer equipment, they found thousands of photos and videos of the abuse Gisèle suffered.
NOW, fifty men are accused of these violations. Most of them told authorities that they believed the woman was pretending to be asleep. The trial, which began on Monday, will last four monthsThe victim herself, who contracted four sexually transmitted diseases as a result of the rapes and suffers from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, has requested that the trial be held in public.
The ex-husband’s story doesn’t end there. By matching his DNA, he was charged with murder of a 23-year-old woman in Paris in 1991 and attempted rape of another young woman in 1999.
