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A man is accused of drugging his wife and then inviting dozens of men to rape her over almost a decade. The questions raised by the case have unsettled the country.

 

For years, she had been losing hair and weight. She had started forgetting whole days, and sometimes appeared to be in dreamlike trances. Her children and friends worried she had Alzheimer's.

 

But in late 2020, after she was summoned to a police station in southern France, she learned a far more shattering story. Her husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, had been crushing sleeping pills into her food and drink to put her into a deep sleep, the police said, and then raping her. He had ushered dozens of men into her home to film them raping her, too, they said, in abuse that lasted nearly a decade.

 

Using the man's photographs, videos and online messages, the police spent the next two years identifying and charging those other suspects.

On Monday, 51 men, including Mr. Pelicot, went on trial in Avignon, in a case that has shocked France and cast a spotlight on the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse and the broader culture in which such crimes could occur.

 

The accused men represent a kaleidoscope of working-class and middle-class French society: truck drivers, soldiers, carpenters and trade workers, a prison guard, a nurse, an I.T. expert working for a bank, a local journalist. They range in age from 26 to 74. Many have children and are in relationships. Most are charged with raping the woman once. A handful are accused of returning as many as six times to rape her.

The victim, Gisèle, who has divorced her husband and changed her surname since his arrest, is now in her 70s.

 

 

Horrifying and heart-wrenching.

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...times like these make me really question if I truly believe the death penalty is a bad thing.

 

That woman is incredibly brave.

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Electric chair! 

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Can an asteroid destroy Earth already???? I'm so f*cking over this sh*t

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What absolute monsters.

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This is horrifying. She's so strong :dancehall3:

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The things men are capable of :biblio: Absolutely no words 

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Peine forte et dure

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very insightful twitter thread with more details about the case + the feminist perspective of it.

 

 

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death to all

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ALLECTRIC CHAIR

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3 minutes ago, Kylizzle said:

Stories like this make it hard for me to trust men in general. Cause how does one man find 50 people depraved enough to commit this act? 

That's what scares me the most... How many monsters are there hidden among us? It's mindblowing.

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The rapists should ROT. 51 ONE MEN?????!?!?!?!?! ALMOST A DECADE!?!?!?!?! BRING BACK THE GUILLOTINE!!!!

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1 minute ago, réveuse said:

The rapists should ROT. 51 ONE MEN?????!?!?!?!?! ALMOST A DECADE!?!?!?!?! BRING BACK THE GUILLOTINE!!!!

apparently, there are 82 different rapists in these videos, only 51 were identified and facing trial. Disgusting.

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3 minutes ago, Antisocialites said:

apparently, there are 82 different rapists in these videos, only 51 were identified and facing trial. Disgusting.

OH MY GOD??? 82???? THEY SHOULD ALL DIE!

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Humanity is so ******* gross, we're truly the worst

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What's horrifying is that this was her husband, supposedly the person she could trust the most in life.And he ended up being this monster.

 

It is difficult to trust in people when things like this happen. 

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Absolutely horrifying. I can't fathom what goes on in these monsters' minds to become so twisted. I'm shaken to the core.

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This is why I hate being attracted to men. :dancehall:

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