17th September 2024
Gisele Pelicot (R), next to her lawyer Antoine Camus (L) and Stephane Babonneau (2-R) reacts at the Avignon courthouse during the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France, in Avignon, on September 16, 2024. | Credit: AFP
The main defendant in a mass rape trial that has shocked France said Tuesday that he was a “rapist”, adding that 50 other co-defendants he allegedly recruited to rape his then-wife while drugged were too.
“I am a rapist like the others in this room. They all knew they cannot say the contrary,” 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot said in his first testimony to the court since the trial opened on September 2.
He said of his ex-wife, 71-year-old Gisele Pelicot: “She did not deserve this.”
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