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THE French pensioner who confessed to recruiting men to rape his sedated wife has again dodged giving evidence in court after he was found “fainting” in his prison cell.
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THE trial of a Frenchman who recruited 72 men online to rape his sedated wife was dramatically suspended today after he was rushed to hospital with “intense pain”.
Pensioner Dominique Pélicot, 71, and 51 other men face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty following a trial at Vaucluse Criminal Court, in Avignon.
Dominique Pélicot was set to take the stand today at his own trial[/caption]
Son Florian Pélicot (L) and daughter Caroline Darian (R) arriving in court on Tuesday for their father’s trial before it was suspended[/caption]
Their brother David Pélicot was also attending the now-suspended trial[/caption]
Retired electrician Pélicot was expected to be cross-examined this afternoon but is now “in hospital” receiving medical care, presiding judge Roger Arata said on Tuesday.
He would also be ordering a “forensic medical examination” of the defendant.
There will ‘updates on his state of health,’ as the issue was resolved, said the Judge.
Judge Arata said earlier today that Pélicot claimed to be “suffering with pain” in his intestines first reported on Monday.
“He had samples taken yesterday for analysis,” said the Judge on Tuesday morning.
“Medical staff do not have the results. Mr Pélicot is still ill. I will be receiving emergency updates throughout the day.”
It is technically possible to avoid a trial in France because of extreme ill health.
Abdominal pain is frequently the result of problems in the small and large intestine, and counsel for Pélicot said such pain has been affecting him for a number of days.
The Judge said other witnesses would be heard until Pélicot was fit enough to be cross-examined, meaning the trial – which is scheduled to last for four months – could continue.
Pélicot was not seen in court on Monday, but his lawyers insisted he wanted to be there.
Béatrice Zavarro, a member of his defence counsel, said: “He assured me he wanted to be here, and that he does not intend to flee.
“Since the beginning, he has told me that he has been waiting for this trial.
“Since the beginning, he has told me that he will explain himself.”
His two sons, David and Florian Pélicot, were also expected in court today after having reportedly taken the stand yesterday.
Women’s Aid has this advice for victims and their families:
If you are a victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Women’s Aid provides a live chat service – available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
Pélicot’s daughter, Caroline Darian, 46, already took the stand and described her father as “one of the greatest sexual predators” in recent years.
Caroline was herself secretly photographed in the nude by her father, as were her two sister-in-laws while taking a bath, it emerged in court.
She also revealed the shocking moment her mum first told her of the harrowing ordeal.
The court case has been shocking France over the past week after Gisele Pélicot, 72, waived her legal right to anonymity last Monday at the opening of her husband Dominique’s trial.
He allegedly invited 72 men he met online to assault his wife after slipping an anxiety medication into her food to knock her out.
He is said to have then filmed the horrid attacks over almost a decade between 2011 and 2020.
This week, a psychologist told the court that Pélicot was having difficulty adjusting to life in jail and that he was targeting his daughter Caroline, who claimed her father had drugged her and taken unseen pictures of her naked.
Dr Paul Bensussan said: “[Pélicot ] is overwhelmed by his current situation. But his anger is greater than his sadness.
“His anger is mostly directed at his daughter Caroline because of the book that she has written, entitled; ‘And I Stopped Calling You Dad’.”
Upon interviewing with additional psychologists and detectives after his arrest in September 2020, Pélicot said the criminal allegations against him had “ruined his life” and that he and his wife might have carried on leading a “happily” fulfilling existence.
Pélicot’s daughter last week took the stand to slam her father and reveal the sexual violence she faced at his hand.
Psychologists testifying on Monday also dubbed the sick man “Jekyll and Hyde” after claiming he has a split personality.
A report submitted to the court suggested Pélicot displayed a tendency towards “paraphilia” – sexual arousal in atypical situations – and also “somnophilia”– an attraction to unconscious partners.
This made him a “very caring and much-loved husband by day” but “a rapist at night”, psychologist Bruno Daunizeau explained in the report.
The court heard how Pélicot considered himself a “good husband” to the woman he married in 1971 and had three children with.
He said he was “respectful of his wife’s desires and refusals to sex”, but “also had fantasies about swinging” and “got pleasure” in seeing his wife “undergo sexual acts that she normally refused”.
Ms Daunizeau also revealed that Pélicot maintains the sickening abuse of his wife would have continued if he had not been arrested – and complained that his life had been ruined by the criminal charges brought against him.
Meanwhile, another psychologist Marianne Douteau told the court that Mr Pélicot still felt his life could have carried on as normal, despite the crimes he has admitted to.
She said that Pélicot “complained that this criminal case against him has destroyed his life”.
Pélicot is said to have claimed: “Gisèle would not have known anything, we would have continued to be happy.”
The sick husband previously told psychologists he spiked his wife’s food to knock her out after she refused to try swinging.
Psychologists told the court that Dominique was having difficulty adjusting to life in jail and that he was targeting his daughter Caroline (pictured)[/caption]
Dominique Pélicot was first caught in September 2020, when he was arrested for secretely filming up women’s skirts at a supermarket in Carpentras.
His devices were searched, and there were hundreds of photos and pornographic videos of women, including family members.
It was while in custody that Pélicot reported a hard drive, hidden under a printer, which contained a file called Abuses.
It classified the nickname and telephone numbers of attackers, together with some 3,800 photos and videos of Gisèle Pélicot being raped, between 2011 and 2020.
Detectives have listed a total of 92 rapes committed by 72 men, 51 of whom have been identified.
Pélicot moved his family from greater Paris in 1991, and later allegedly set up the sex ring.
It involved advertising on a site for “partners” on an online forum called ‘Without Her Knowing’ on the coco.fr site.
Of the 83 men involved, 51 aged between 26 and 73 were identified and arrested by the police.
Pélicot is said to have sedated his wife by putting a powerful anxiolytic drug into her dinner.
Alleged rapists involved in the case include civil servants, ambulance workers, soldiers, prison guards, nurses, a journalist, a municipal councillor, and truck drivers.
In a separate case, Pélicot has been charged with raping and murdering a 23-year-old estate agent in Paris in 1991.
He has admitted one attempted rape in 1999, after DNA testing proved a case against him.
Gisele was subjected to severe sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of other strangers[/caption]
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A SICK man who drugged his wife so 72 male strangers could rape her pretended to be a “good husband by day” only to abuse her at night, a court heard.
Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial for “aggravated rape” of his wife Gisèle Pélicot.
Dominique Pélicot is accused of recruiting men online to assault his wife repeatedly over 10 years while snapping her own daughter naked[/caption]
Ms Pélicot was subjected to severe sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of other strangers[/caption]
The sons of Gisele Pelicot, Florian (C), David (R) and her daughter Caroline Darian (L) arrive at the criminal court[/caption]
Mr Pélicot allegedly invited the men he met online to assault her wife after spiking her food to knock her out.
He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted at the Vaucluse Criminal Court, in Avignon.
Psychologists testifying today dubbed the sick man “Jekyll and Hyde” after claiming he has a split personality.
A report submitted to the court suggested Mr Pélicot displayed a tendency towards “paraphilia” – sexual arousal in atypical situations – and also “somnophilia”– an attraction to unconscious partners.
This made him a “very caring and much-loved husband by day” but “a rapist at night”, psychologist Bruno Daunizeau explained in the report.
The court heard how Mr Pélicot considered himself a “good husband” to the woman he married in 1971 and had three children with.
He said he was “respectful of his wife’s desires and refusals to sex”, but “also had fantasies about swinging” and “got pleasure” in seeing his wife “undergo sexual acts that she normally refused”.
Ms Daunizeau also revealed that Mr Pelicot maintains the sickening abuse of his wife would have continued if he had not been arrested – and complained that his life had been ruined by the criminal charges brought against him.
Meanwhile, another psychologist Marianne Douteau told the court that Mr Pélicot still felt his life could have carried on as normal, despite the crimes he has admitted to.
She said Mr Pélicot “complained that this criminal case against him has destroyed his life”.
Mr Pélicot is said to have claimed: “Gisèle would not have known anything, we would have continued to be happy.”
The sick husband previously told psychologists he spiked his wife’s food to knock her out after she refused to try swinging.
It comes as Ms Pélicot’s sons today arrived at the court to take the stand and give testimony.
David and Florian, his son-in-law Pierre P. and his brother Joel Pelicot will now get a chance to speak inside the court.
Ms Pélicot’s daughter last week took the stand to slam her father and reveal the sexual violence she faced at his hand.
Mr Pelicot is scheduled to speak on Tuesday afternoon.
Police found images on Mr Pélicot’s camera and laptop that showed multiple alleged rapes of his wife between 2011 and 2020.
Ms Pélicot had remained silent during the first three days of the rape trial but took the stands last Thursday to speak about the harrowing case.
The brave mum stood tall and faced dozens of men accused of sexually assaulting her while she allegedly lay unconscious.
Ms Pélicot said she does not know how she survived the atrocities that spanned over nine years by her husband who she thought was the love of her life.
She described the bedroom where she was raped as a “torture chamber”.
“I don’t know how I survived … I ask myself how I am standing before you,” she told the court.
The mum even said she could have never “imagined” she was drugged “even for a single second”.
“I lost 10 years of my life. Those are years I will never get back.”
Ms Pelicot revealed she thought of taking her own life, but with the support of her family and children, she gathered the courage to build a new identity.
Ms Pélicot could have chosen to stay anonymous and let the trial happen behind closed doors under French laws.
But she decided to come out and speak of the horror she faced as she told the court “no woman should suffer” what she did.
She told the court in a composed manner: “If other women [in France] wake up with no memory, they might remember my testimony.
“No woman should suffer from being drugged and victimised. We must address this scourge”.
The mum also described the moment her daughter found out about the allegations that her husband had drugged her before organising the rapes.
Ms Pélicot said: “When I told my daughter, she screamed like a wild beast. I will never forget this.
‘When I told my sons about this, I don’t think they really understood, they were withdrawn and didn’t react much. I think they were in a state of shock. They said don’t say such silly things.
“That evening, the children rang all the time saying don’t disappear – they were worried I might die.”
Caroline Darian, 46, branded her father Mr Pélicot as the “worst sexual predator” as she took the stand on the fifth day of the rape trial.
She took the stands to reveal her horror of sexual violence by her father.
She told the court: “How do you rebuild yourself from the ashes when your father is undoubtedly one of the greatest sexual predators of recent years?”
Ms Darian was herself secretly photographed in the nude by her father, as were her two sisters-in-law while taking a bath, the court heard.
This was at the same family home in Mazan, some 20 miles from Avignon, where Mr Pélicot had invited the men to mass rape his wife.
She is convinced that – like her mother – she was routinely drugged so that her father could sexually assault her.
The photos taken of her were in a file entitled “around my daughter, naked”.
Ms Darian told the court: “[My father] was one person in whom I had total confidence, who I thought had integrity, who respected his daughter, who was proud of her, and who had always encouraged her.
“But then I discovered that in fact, my father had photographed me without my knowledge, naked.”
A tearful Ms Darian revealed how she felt when she saw her nude photographs for the first time.
She said she saw a woman – who she later found was herself – lying on a side all naked.
“I did not recognise myself, but the police officer pointed out a brown spot on her cheek, like mine,” she said.
“There, I discovered myself and I understood that the man was my father.”
Ms Darian was then followed into the witness box by Céline Pélicot, her sister-in-law.
She said that police had confirmed there were nude photos of her in the bath, along with similar images of another sister-in-law.
Ms Pélicot said: “Where will these photos be when I’m dead? These degrading, humiliating shots were taken in the most intimate room.
“Who did [Mr Pélicot] send them to? Where are they? Where will they be in five years, in ten years, when I’m dead?
“Will my children one day come across them? Why did he [Mr Pélicot] look at me like that?”
Mr Pélicot was first caught in September 2020, when he was arrested for secretly filming up women’s skirts at a supermarket in Carpentras.
His devices were searched, and there were hundreds of photos and pornographic videos of women, including family members.
It was while in custody that Mr Pélicot reported a hard drive, hidden under a printer, which contained a file called “Abuses”.
It classified the nickname and telephone numbers of attackers, together with some 3,800 photos and videos of Gisèle Pélicot being raped, between 2011 and 2020.
The investigators counted around 200 instances of rape, most of them by Ms Pelicot’s husband and more than 90 by strangers.
Investigators drew up a list of 72 suspects besides the husband, and have so far managed to identify 50 of them, aged between 26 and 74.
All those 50 men alongside Mr Pelicot are on trial.
Yesterday the French court heard that in some of the heinous footage, Pélicot allegedly takes turns with three other men to rape his wife in one single incident.
The instances of the horrific abuse sometimes lasted as long as six hours and alleged drugged victim Ms Pélicot could be heard snorting and breathing heavily in clips, the court was told.
The court in Avignon also heard yesterday that Pélicot once accused his wife of infidelity when she discovered she had a sexually transmitted disease.
The alleged rapists involved in the case include civil servants, ambulance workers, soldiers, prison guards, nurses, a journalist, a municipal councillor, and truck drivers.
In a separate case, Mr Pélicot has been charged with raping and murdering a 23-year-old estate agent in Paris in 1991.
He has admitted one attempted rape in 1999 after DNA testing proved a case against him.
The Avignon aggravated rape case continues, and is due to last until December 21.
Fourteen of the other defendants have admitted rape, while the rest deny any wrongdoing.
Women’s Aid has this advice for victims and their families:
If you are a victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Women’s Aid provides a live chat service – available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
DISGRACED fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to just 11 years in prison for a series of sexual assaults.
Nygard – a pal of Prince Andrew – was found guilty of sexually assaulting four women almost a year ago.
Fashion designer Nygard with two women in the Bahamas[/caption]
Jailing him for 11 years today, Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said: “Peter Nygard is a sexual predator.
“He is also a Canadian success story gone very wrong.”
Canadian tycoon Nygard, 83, will have just seven years left to serve, however, having already spent time in custody.
He was convicted after a six-week trial in November last year after shamelessly pleading not guilty to all charges based on allegations dating from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.
Nygard’s victims labelled the sex offender a “monster” who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
The women described how they met Nygard on a plane, at a nightclub, or even in an airport.
He would then lure them in with fake job interviews – the promise of connections or work in the fashion industry and invite them to tour his office, before taking them to his private bedroom.
All five women said their meetings with Nygard ended in sexual activity they did not consent to.
Last year the fashion mogul said he couldn’t remember four of the five women in the case, and claimed he would have never acted “in that kind of manner”.
A jury found him guilty on four counts of sexual assault but not guilty on a fifth, as well as one count of forcible confinement.
One of the complainants said Nygard wouldn’t let her leave his private suite – which led to the confinement charge.
Others said they felt trapped in the suite, describing doors that had to be opened with a keypad code or the push of a button near the bed.
One woman said: “The actions that Nygard took have impacted my life in a debilitating way.
“I did not feel safe being seen. Therefore I did not trust men and did not engage in long-term relationships with anyone for my entire life.
“Now a 63-year-old woman, I’m deeply saddened by the lack of love in my life.”
Lisa Haba, a lawyer representing almost 60 women suing Nygard in the US, has previously said “Nygard is worse than (Jeffrey) Epstein”.
It was alleged in a civil claim brought by ten women in 2020 that Nygard ran a “sex-trafficking ring” involving girls as young as 14 from his luxury home in the Caribbean.
Lisa said in 2020: “Sadly, we understand from our exhaustive investigation that there may be hundreds of additional Nygard victims yet to come forward.
“We want these women to know that they are stronger, and their voices are more powerful than the man who inflicted this horrible abuse.
“Peter Nygard’s reign of terror has come to an end and we are committed to ensuring that he is brought to justice.”
Nygard founded a fashion firm in Winnipeg in 1967 which became the hugely successful Nygard International.
He dined with the late Queen Elizabeth and rubbed shoulders with political leaders and Hollywood stars.
Nygard long boasted about his rise from humble beginnings, as a young Finnish immigrant who built a fashion empire with almost 170 stores at its peak.
Not long after Nygard settled cases of sexual harassment against three women out of court in 2000, Prince Andrew visited the mogul’s opulent estate in the Caribbean with his ex Sarah Ferguson.
The fashion mogul and Andrew were pictured together on the holiday island.
The disgraced former fashion executive once threw lavish parties at his mansion in the Bahamas attended by celebrities and politicians including Oprah Winfrey, President George Bush Sr, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery.
The Canadian businessman, once estimated to be worth £570million, used his “power and status” to assault four women, prosecutors told the Toronto court.
Pictures published in 2020 showed Nygard aboard his distinctive chrome blue liveried private Boeing 747, dubbed the N-Force.
They alleged he invited the women to his firm’s Toronto headquarters under a professional guise, promising them tours or job offers, before luring them to his private suite where he sexually assaulted them.
Inside the bedroom was “a giant bed … and a bar and doors, doors with no handles and automatic locks controlled by Peter Nygard”, one prosecutor, Ana Serban, told the court.
Creepy footage from 2008 showed the fashion tycoon shows him dressed in a sleazy t-shirt emblazoned with the words “F**k Buddy” as he told a young woman, “I’m your new boyfriend”.
Nygard would often host what he called “Pamper Parties” at his massive island resort, Nygard Cay, where he allegedly chose girls for sex then either forced himself on them or offered them cash.
His office on the island allegedly included a “passion pit” with a sofa that instantly converted into a bed.
Events on the island were described by an attendee in investigative reporter Melissa Cronin’s book Predator King as “one big orgy”.
Nude statues modelled after Nygard’s exes, an underground dance floor with hidden cameras, and a karaoke room where Nygard would watch scantily-dressed women dance until dawn were alleged to have been key features of the resort.
A sign bearing the likeness of Nygard is displayed outside his Times Square headquarters in 2020[/caption]
A SICK husband on trial for drugging his wife so 72 male strangers could rape her claimed he did so as she refused to try swinging, a court heard.
Dominique Pélicot, 71, told psychologists he spiked his wife’s food to knock her out.
Dominique Pélicot is accused of recruiting men online to assault his wife repeatedly over 10 years while snapping her own daughter naked[/caption]
Ms Pélicot was subjected to severe sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of other strangers[/caption]
The sons of Gisele Pelicot, Florian (C), David (R) and her daughter Caroline Darian (L) arrive at the criminal court[/caption]
Mr Pélicot has been accused of “aggravated rape” of Gisèle Pélicot, also 71 – and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted at the Vaucluse Criminal Court, in Avignon.
He allegedly invited the men he met online to assault her wife after drugging her.
Annabelle Montagne, a psychologist who interviewed Mr Pélicot in 2020 after he was detained by cops, said he carried out the abuse after his wife refused to take part in his sexual fantasies.
She told the court: “Mr Pélicot said to me: ‘My wife and I had a discussion about swinging but she didn’t agree so I drugged her’.
“[Mr Pélicot] saw his partner as an object to satisfy his sexual and narcissistic needs. His wife was a partial object and no longer an object of total love.”
Mr Pélicot told cops that he considered himself a “good husband” to the woman he married in 1971 and had three children with.
He said he was “respectful of his wife’s desires and refusals to sex”, but “also had fantasies about swinging” and “got pleasure” in seeing his wife “undergo sexual acts that she normally refused”.
A psychological report submitted to the court suggested Mr Pélicot displayed a tendency towards “paraphilia” – sexual arousal in atypical situations – and also “somnophilia”– an attraction to unconscious partners.
This made him a “very caring and much-loved husband by day” but “a rapist at night”, psychologist Bruno Daunizeau explained in the report.
She also revealed Pelicot maintains the sickening abuse of his wife would have continued if he had not been arrested – and complained that his life had been ruined by the criminal charges brought against him.
Meanwhile, another psychologist Marianne Douteau told the court that Mr Pélicot still felt his life could have carried on as normal, despite the crimes he has admitted to.
She said Mr Pélicot “complained that this criminal case against him has destroyed his life”.
Mr Pélicot is said to have claimed: “Gisèle would not have known anything, we would have continued to be happy.”
It comes as Ms Pélicot’s sons today arrived at the court to take the stand and give testimony.
David and Florian, his son-in-law Pierre P. and his brother Joel Pelicot will now get a chance to speak inside the court.
Ms Pélicot’s daughter last week took the stand to slam her father and reveal the sexual violence she faced at his hand.
Mr Pelicot is scheduled to speak on Tuesday afternoon.
Police found images on Mr Pélicot’s camera and laptop that showed multiple alleged rapes of his wife between 2011 and 2020.
Ms Pélicot had remained silent during the first three days of the rape trial but took the stands last Thursday to speak about the harrowing case.
The brave mum stood tall and faced dozens of men accused of sexually assaulting her while she allegedly lay unconscious.
Ms Pélicot said she does not know how she survived the atrocities that spanned over nine years by her husband who she thought was the love of her life.
She described the bedroom where she was raped as a “torture chamber”.
“I don’t know how I survived … I ask myself how I am standing before you,” she told the court.
The mum even said she could have never “imagined” she was drugged “even for a single second”.
“I lost 10 years of my life. Those are years I will never get back.”
Ms Pelicot revealed she thought of taking her own life, but with the support of her family and children, she gathered the courage to build a new identity.
Ms Pélicot could have chosen to stay anonymous and let the trial happen behind closed doors under French laws.
But she decided to come out and speak of the horror she faced as she told the court “no woman should suffer” what she did.
She told the court in a composed manner: “If other women [in France] wake up with no memory, they might remember my testimony.
“No woman should suffer from being drugged and victimised. We must address this scourge”.
The mum also described the moment her daughter found out about the allegations that her husband had drugged her before organising the rapes.
Ms Pélicot said: “When I told my daughter, she screamed like a wild beast. I will never forget this.
‘When I told my sons about this, I don’t think they really understood, they were withdrawn and didn’t react much. I think they were in a state of shock. They said don’t say such silly things.
“That evening, the children rang all the time saying don’t disappear – they were worried I might die.”
Caroline Darian, 46, branded her father Mr Pélicot as the “worst sexual predator” as she took the stand on the fifth day of the rape trial.
She took the stands to reveal her horror of sexual violence by her father.
She told the court: “How do you rebuild yourself from the ashes when your father is undoubtedly one of the greatest sexual predators of recent years?”
Ms Darian was herself secretly photographed in the nude by her father, as were her two sisters-in-law while taking a bath, the court heard.
This was at the same family home in Mazan, some 20 miles from Avignon, where Mr Pélicot had invited the men to mass rape his wife.
She is convinced that – like her mother – she was routinely drugged so that her father could sexually assault her.
The photos taken of her were in a file entitled “around my daughter, naked”.
Ms Darian told the court: “[My father] was one person in whom I had total confidence, who I thought had integrity, who respected his daughter, who was proud of her, and who had always encouraged her.
“But then I discovered that in fact, my father had photographed me without my knowledge, naked.”
A tearful Ms Darian revealed how she felt when she saw her nude photographs for the first time.
She said she saw a woman – who she later found was herself – lying on a side all naked.
“I did not recognise myself, but the police officer pointed out a brown spot on her cheek, like mine,” she said.
“There, I discovered myself and I understood that the man was my father.”
Ms Darian was then followed into the witness box by Céline Pélicot, her sister-in-law.
She said that police had confirmed there were nude photos of her in the bath, along with similar images of another sister-in-law.
Ms Pélicot said: “Where will these photos be when I’m dead? These degrading, humiliating shots were taken in the most intimate room.
“Who did [Mr Pélicot] send them to? Where are they? Where will they be in five years, in ten years, when I’m dead?
“Will my children one day come across them? Why did he [Mr Pélicot] look at me like that?”
Mr Pélicot was first caught in September 2020, when he was arrested for secretly filming up women’s skirts at a supermarket in Carpentras.
His devices were searched, and there were hundreds of photos and pornographic videos of women, including family members.
It was while in custody that Mr Pélicot reported a hard drive, hidden under a printer, which contained a file called “Abuses”.
It classified the nickname and telephone numbers of attackers, together with some 3,800 photos and videos of Gisèle Pélicot being raped, between 2011 and 2020.
The investigators counted around 200 instances of rape, most of them by Ms Pelicot’s husband and more than 90 by strangers.
Investigators drew up a list of 72 suspects besides the husband, and have so far managed to identify 50 of them, aged between 26 and 74.
All those 50 men alongside Mr Pelicot are on trial.
Yesterday the French court heard that in some of the heinous footage, Pélicot allegedly takes turns with three other men to rape his wife in one single incident.
The instances of the horrific abuse sometimes lasted as long as six hours and alleged drugged victim Ms Pélicot could be heard snorting and breathing heavily in clips, the court was told.
The court in Avignon also heard yesterday that Pélicot once accused his wife of infidelity when she discovered she had a sexually transmitted disease.
The alleged rapists involved in the case include civil servants, ambulance workers, soldiers, prison guards, nurses, a journalist, a municipal councillor, and truck drivers.
In a separate case, Mr Pélicot has been charged with raping and murdering a 23-year-old estate agent in Paris in 1991.
He has admitted one attempted rape in 1999 after DNA testing proved a case against him.
The Avignon aggravated rape case continues, and is due to last until December 21.
Fourteen of the other defendants have admitted rape, while the rest deny any wrongdoing.
Women’s Aid has this advice for victims and their families:
If you are a victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Women’s Aid provides a live chat service – available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
Ms Pélicot sitting in the court alongside her daughter Caroline Darian (L)[/caption]
Caroline Darian (R) in tears while leaving the criminal court in Avignon[/caption]
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