Gisèle Pelicot is a 72-year-old retired mother of three, who, until 2020, spent her days in the idyllic town of Mazan in the South of France looking after her grandchildren. Gisèle’s world fell apart in 2020 when police informed her that her husband of 50 years had a catalogue of video files on his computer of multiple men, whom he had contracted, raping her as she lay in a drugged state.
Dominique Pelicot was originally caught on unrelated charges — trying to film up women’s skirts in a supermarket — after which police seized his electronic devices and began to unravel his yearslong pattern of assault. Dominique allegedly drugged Gisèle from the years 2011 to 2020 and recruited at least 80 men to assault his wife in their home, in her own bed. Police have identified only 51 of those men, including Dominique himself. Police also recovered 3,800 photos and videos of Gisèle being assaulted.
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