The shocking story of 50 men accused of raping a grandmother, fueled by her husband's depravity.
50 men accused of raping and drugging grandmother Gisele Pelicot at her home were described as 'Mr Average' - but the industrial scale of their depravity was beyond abnormal. 72-year-old Pelicot was handed a 20-year spell behind bars after admitting raping his unconscious wife and inviting at least 83 men to join in. Thirteen pleaded guilty, 35 denied the charges, another man is on the run and the rest are to be identified.
The assailants include a soldier who assaulted Gisele on the day his daughter was born, a nurse who attacked her for three hours, a forklift driver who knew he was HIV positive and a local man who continued even though his victim was snoring. Pelicot’s lawyer Beatrice Zavarro called them 'Mr Average' and said the “real debate” was “how these men, from all walks of life, landed up in Gisèle Pelicot’s bedroom.” Among the range of professions, which include a councillor, a grocer and IT worker, 14 of the accused had previous convictions for violence. They were all caught out because Pelicot recorded all the “chemical submission” attacks on his wife and kept the videos on his computer. The 72-year-old retired electrician was nicknamed the Devil of Mazan, where the couple lived in the South of France. Rather than being “respectful of the law” he sold ecstasy via a website on which Pelicot found men willing to sleep with his unconscious wife. Ten months before Pelicot was caught by detectives in 2020, Hennebert arranged to go to the serial rapist’s home in Mazan to sleep with Gisele
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