“I lived with a man who I would’ve never imagined could be capable of this. I trusted him completely,” Gisèle Pélicot said as her husband Dominique appeared in court on Sept. 17
The French man accused of drugging his wife and inviting dozens of men to rape her over the course of almost a decade has admitted to the charges against him, according to reports.
On Tuesday, Sept. 17, Dominique Pélicot appeared in court in Avignon, France and said in his first testimony: “I am a rapist like the others in this room,” per the BBC and French outlets Le Parisien and France 24.
According to the BBC, 15 of the 50 defendants at the trial admitted to rape, while most just claimed they’d participated in sexual acts.
“They all knew, they cannot say the contrary,” Dominique, 71, told the court, per the outlet.
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