2024-09-18 01:59:25
The Frenchman contacted his accomplices via chat and explained the rules to them so that his wife would not wake up.
The brutal abuse to which Dominique Pelicot subjected his wife lasted for almost a decade in France, He drugged her with the intention of having her raped by strangers while filming for record keeping.
Following the start of the trial against the 71-year-old man on Monday, French society has been shocked by what Gisèle Pelicot experienced between 2011 and 2020, when Up to 72 men, aged between 21 and 68, raped her with her husband’s consentwho recorded dozens of videos and took thousands of photos of the abuse.
In total, there are 51 defendants facing trial in the Avignon court in southern France, including They include a journalist, a firefighter and a gendarme, as well as retirees and students.including the victim’s ex-husband.
In order to prevent her from realizing what was going to happen, her husband mixed a drug with her food and, when she lost consciousness, she brought in the chosen one to rape her that night.
The method designed by Dominique Pelicot included several steps that the man’s accomplices, whom he contacted via chat, had to follow in order not to be discovered: enter the house quietly and undress in the kitchen, so that they wouldn’t leave anything in the bedroom.
In addition, Pelicot went to such a level of detail in committing systematic abuses against his wife that he demanded that the men They will not use perfume or smoke before entering their home, and they will warm their hands on the radiator. so as not to wake her up.
In 2020 the woman found out what her husband was doing to her
It was only in 2020 that French police informed Gisèle Pelicot of the abuse she had been subjected to by unknown persons after being drugged by her husband of five decades and father of her three children.
The officers had videos and photographs in their possession showing the unconscious woman. In fact, The victim only recognized one man among the fifty defendants facing justice.
Many of them tried to justify their actions and claimed that the woman She willingly agreed to be raped as part of her fantasiesOthers indicated that since the husband was present they felt that She had given them her consent through himHowever, the French Prosecutor’s Office has completely ruled out any of these options.
While most men are charged with raping a woman once, Several others are accused of returning up to six times at the request of their husband..
Following the multiple rapes to which she was subjected, Gisèle Pelicot He was diagnosed with four sexually transmitted diseases.
How it was discovered that he was drugging his wife to rape her
Thanks to all the security measures he took, Dominique Pelicot managed to ensure that the abuse committed against his wife went unnoticed for almost a decade. But in 2020, three women They reported him to the police after he tried to film them under their skirtsfor which he was arrested.
Although he was released on bail, The police seized his two cell phones, his video cameras and his computer..
There they found not only photos and thousands of videos, but also messages in which the subject reported that his wife was raped, causing shock in France.
During the investigation, the French police 83 suspects were investigated, but after gathering all the information, only 50 are being prosecutedwho is joined by Dominique Pelicot, who faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.