In a case that has shocked France, a 71-year-old man is on trial, with 50 other defendants, over allegations that he drugged his wife and invited dozens of strangers to rape her in their home over nearly a decade.
MAZAN, France — This quaint village nestled among rolling hills in the south of France seems an unlikely setting for a crime so horrific it strained belief: Over a decade, police say dozens of men systematically raped a woman as she lay unconscious in her own bed, drugged by her husband of 50 years.
He missed much of the proceedings last week due to what his lawyer said was kidney stones and an infection. They knew everything, they can’t say otherwise,” Dominique Pelicot said, begging his family for forgiveness. “She did not deserve this,” he said of his wife. “I had an addiction, I had needs,” he said. “And I’m ashamed.
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