Over the course of nearly a decade, a man in the south of France is accused of recruiting strangers online to rape his wife after drugging her with anxiety medication. He and 50 co-defendants, including civil servants and firefighters, are to be judged in a trial beginning Monday in a court in Avignon and expected to last several months.
Between 2011 and 2020, Dominique P., a 71-year-old former employee with electricity provider EDF, allegedly incited more than 70 men to rape his wife while she lay unconscious at their home.
Of the 72 suspects, 50 have been identified and are standing trial. They face up to 20 years in prison.
They include civil servants, soldiers, firefighters, prison guards, truck drivers, a journalist and municipal councillor.
The men, aged 21 to 68 at the time, were recruited via an online sex forum called “Without her knowing”.
The victim, a woman in her early 70s who wishes to remain anonymous, will attend the trial and face her alleged rapists for the first time.
According to her lawyer, she has no memory of the rapes and discovered what had happened to her only at the time of her husband’s arrest.
Sexual assaults videoed
Dominique P. was arrested in September 2020 after he was found using a pen with a hidden camera to spy on women in changing cubicles in a shopping centre in the town of Carpentras.
When police searched his home in a nearby village they found numerous videos and photos of his wife, visibly unconscious and often in the foetal position, being raped by different men.
The images found on his camera phone and computer allowed police to identify 92 acts of rape by 72 men.
Dominique P. maintains “everyone knew” his wife was being drugged without her consent.
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