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A antheral has gone connected proceedings successful France for repeatedly drugging and raping his woman arsenic good arsenic arranging for dozens of different men to rape her.
The defendant, named arsenic 71-year-old Dominique P, is accused of recruiting strangers online to travel to his location and sexually battle the unfortunate for implicit a decade.
The pistillate was truthful heavy sedated she was not alert of the repetition abuse, her lawyers say.
The lawsuit has horrified France for the wide standard of the sedate crimes.
Police identified astatine slightest 92 rapes committed by 72 men. Fifty were identified and charged and are lasting proceedings alongside the husband.
The victim, present 72, lone learnt of the maltreatment successful 2020 aft being informed by police.
The proceedings volition beryllium "a horrible ordeal" for her, said her lawyer Antoine Camus, arsenic it volition beryllium the archetypal clip she sees video grounds of the abuse.
"For the archetypal time, she volition person to unrecorded done the rapes that she endured implicit 10 years," helium told AFP quality agency.
Dominique P was investigated by constabulary aft an incidental successful September 2020, erstwhile a information defender caught him secretly filming nether the skirts of 3 women successful a buying centre.
Police past recovered hundreds of pictures and videos of his woman connected his machine successful which she appeared to beryllium unconscious.
The images are alleged to amusement dozens of assaults successful the couple's home. The maltreatment is alleged to person started successful 2011.
Investigators besides recovered chats connected a website successful which Dominique P allegedly recruited strangers to travel to their location and rape his wife.
He admitted to investigators that helium gave his woman almighty tranquilisers, including an anxiety-reducing drug.
He is accused of taking portion successful the rapes, filming them and encouraging the different men utilizing degrading language, according to prosecutors.
No wealth is alleged to person changed hands.
The accused rapists - aged betwixt 26 and 74 - came from each walks of beingness and portion astir participated once, immoderate took portion up to six times, according to prosecutors.
Their defence is that they were helping a mates unrecorded retired their fantasies but Dominique P told investigators that everyone was alert his woman had been drugged without her knowledge.
An adept said her authorities "was person to a coma than to sleep".
Dominique P, who said helium was raped erstwhile helium was nine, is acceptable to look "his household and his wife", his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told quality bureau AFP.
He has besides been charged with a 1991 execution and rape, which helium denies, and an attempted rape successful 1999, which helium admitted aft DNA testing.
The trial, which is being held successful Parc des Expositions successful Avignon, confederate France, is owed to past until 20 December.
On Monday, the opening time of the trial, the pistillate turned up to tribunal supported by her 3 children, AFP reported.
Mr Camus, her lawyer, said she could person opted for a proceedings down closed doors, but "that's what her attackers would person wanted".
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