France: “The husband also asked me to meet with me”: Gisele Pelicot was abused over 200 times

With her breath cut off, the entire planet, the developments and trial of Gisele Pelicot’s case by her husband and 72 other men, whom he recruited online. Dominique Pelicot was accused of drugging his wife to film in more than 20,000 videos her rape by many different and unknown men. In fact the 71-year-old had moved on to his sick acts “at least 200 times”. Of the 72 men confirmed to have abused the woman while unconscious, 50 have been identified. Pelikot is said to have been drugging and raping Gisele for over nine years, from 2011 until his arrest in 2020. In the Criminal Court, the 72-year-old was forced to listen to police commissioner Jérémie Bosse Platière that her rapist was molested over her 200 times before she even started communicating with the rest of the rapists. After his own rapes against his wife, Pelicot then began contacting other men to follow his own “steps”. In fact, he was filming them while they raped his wife. Having raped his wife many times, he began to take the role… director, filming dozens of men raping her while she was unconscious as he had given her strong sedatives. Commissioner Platier said there were hundreds of photos and pornographic videos showing “Giselle sleeping and other people’s presence participating in sexual acts.” “The husband also asked me to meet with me” Police officers counted about 200 rapes against Gisele Pelicot, aged 72 today. Most of them were made by her husband while the rest, 92 men completely unknown to her. What had to be done was to identify these men, to understand the story behind the woman’s chronic sexual abuse and to charge each suspect. To do this “I chose to form a limited group, consisting of four people”, police inspector Zeremy Bos Platier explained from the witness’s step. “And I chose people strong enough to face the images,” he commented, referring in detail to long, laborious research. Unwittingly, the 71-year-old facilitated research having stored thousands of photos and videos on their computer’s hard drive. All the material also brought detailed descriptions: in an envelope entitled “malignment” had recorded the name, age, even the phone number of each man who went home to rape the unconscious Giselle. or even “Zanlykasiat”. At the same time, the group followed the many traces left by the perpetrators in their phone conversations with the husband. Communication started from the internet, on Coco.fr’s dating site, then transferred to a “private” chat room that closed last June with a court decision because it had been turned into a “man of predators”. Finally, the husband contacted prospective rapists via Skype or on the phone. Police officers compiled a first list of 11 “contacts” by Dominique Pelicot and sought the email addresses of these persons, with the help of Microsoft. They did the same with the phones: From the phone numbers (to the husband’s accounts) they were examining whether there was any connection between the call and the events recorded at nearby dates on the videos. In fact, one of the 52 identified, told detectives that 71-year-old Dominique Pelicot wanted to have homosexual contact with him. The 60-year-old defendant added that he agreed to do so only on condition that he could have sex with his unconscious wife first. A 71-year-old man is on trial in accustomed of drugging his wife and inviving dozens of Strangers to rape her in their home over near a decided in a case that has shocked country. The husband, , offered sex with his wife on a website, and filmed the abuse. — Political Upging (@Political_Up) In a message sent by Dominique Pelicot to 60 year old he wrote: “I am looking for a perverted accomplice to abuse my wife while sleeping, taking my place,” according to the commissioner. Dominique Pelicot had also blocked many contacts on his phone, which aroused police suspicions. “It’s unusual, we saw a very large number of blocked contacts and thought some of these people would be related” to rapes, police officer continued. To find the evidence of these men, the police asked the telephone companies for help. Victim 72 – year – old Giselle who was raped had reported to her husband that she needed treatment for an unexplained sexual illness she discovered she had. He suggested that he had an affair with someone else while he was away. When asked at a preliminary hearing how she reacted when she learned that she had been humiliated by the alleged respectable family man with whom she had three children, Gisele Pelicot said: “I was disgusted. I felt dirty, humiliated, betrayed. It was a tsunami that hit me. A high-speed train that ran over me”. Determined to expose her rapists and highlight the crime caused by her drug addiction, she courageously resigned from her right to keep the trial private and remain anonymous. Researchers are said to have revealed an envelope with the indication: “My daughter naked”, in which they found a photo of Caroline Darian, sleeping in a bed. Daughter Pelicot looked like a classic man of the “diplanet door”. He was a trained electrician, businessman, and furious cyclist. His middle child and only daughter, Caroline Darian, as is her nickname, described him as a warm and present father in a book published in 2022 entitled “And I stopped calling you Dad”. Middle-aged Caroline now tried to turn her family trauma into action, establishing a non-profit association called “Don’t make me sleep”, to publicize the dangers of drug-inciting crimes. Her father wrote, he was the one who led her to school, took her late from parties, encouraged her and comforted her. Her mother was the steady food, working as manager at a company in the Paris area for 20 years. The arrest In 2020 three women denounced Pelicot to police that he tried to use his camera to film their skirts in a grocery store and was arrested. Police confiscated his two cell phones, two cameras and his electronic devices, including his laptop, before letting him out on bail. On the devices, police say they found photos and videos of an unconscious woman who was sexually assaulted by many people. They said they also found messages on the Skype platform, in which the man boasted that he drugged his wife and invited men to have sex with her while she was unconscious. Men aged between 26 and 74 who are being prosecuted for the rape of Giselle will be faced with a prison sentence of up to 20 years if they are found guilty.