Gisele Pelicot leaves the court room as horrifying rape trial continues in France. Her husband, Dominique Pelicot, orchestrated a nine-year campaign of abuse by drugging his wife before inviting dozens of men to rape her.
A depraved husband allegedly let an HIV positive attacker rape his drugged wife six times, a French court has heard.
While Mr Pelicot and 14 of his co-accused have admitted their part in France's worst rape case, 35 men deny that they forced themselves on Madame Pelicot while she was unconscious, claiming that she in some way consented. Madame Pelicot had no idea that she was being subjected to this terrible betrayal until her husband was arrested for 'upskirting' at his local supermarket and police discovered a library of 'sex-movies' at their home
'Once we went to a nightclub with another couple where there was a 'swingers' room'. But I didn't want to get involved in that so we did not go into that room and we just stayed in the main nightclub,' the mother-of-three replied. The judge told Madame Pelicot that Mr Pelicot has acknowledged his crimes, and asked her; 'What do you feel about this?'
Accompanied by her three grown-up children, the 71-year-old with a smart auburn bob appeared defiant in the face of her abusers. Madame Pelicot is determined that the public knows that she played no part in her husband's warped sexual fantasies that he played out at their picturesque chalet home in the Provence village of Mazan
Madame Pelicot said in court, as reported by Le Parisien: 'I am inert, in my bed, and I am being raped. These are scenes of barbarity. Don't talk to me about sex scenes, these are rape scenes. I have never practised threesomes or swinging, I want to say that.' Read More Husband 'drugged and raped wife 200 times before inviting other men to take turns' 'On that day in September I had been away with my daughter. I returned home to Mazan and I sat in the kitchen.
At the station, where she was wearing a mask as it was during the Covid pandemic, a police officer told her: 'I'm going to tell you something you won't like.' Pictured above is a general view of where the Pelicots lived which has been known as the house of horrors, with a creepy back alleyWearing a long, orange dress, a white blouse and a gold necklace, Madame Pelicot sat with her head held high in the same courtroom as the 50 men accused her raping her
'I had to tell my children that their father was in custody. I called my son-in-law and told my daughter and told them: 'He raped me'. Then I heard my daughter screaming a deep cry that I cannot get out of my head. 'I have an excellent memory. I joked to my husband, 'you're not drugging me are you?' He broke down in tears and said; 'you actually think I could do that?'
'This is why I am speaking out, - for all the other women who are abused. It was humiliating what I have gone through. She said that in the ten years her husband invited other men to their house to rape her, she never woke up in a different pyjama to the one she went to sleep in. The town of Mazan, 20 miles from Avignon in southern France, where the victim and her husband lived and the attacks took place
Meanwhile, Monsieur Pelicot broke down in tears in the dock. Wiping his eyes, the grey-haired multiple rapists appeared to be unable to listen to his estranged wife's memory of their once happy life. When asked if she had any abuse after suffering the abuse, Madame Pelicot said: 'I have gynaecological problems. I was diagnosed with four sexually transmitted diseases at the Versailles medical forensic unit.'
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