The monster of France: he put “drugs in the soup” of his wife for 10 years so that 44 men rape her and record the attacks

Some 45 men were arrested in the south France for a case of herd sexual abuse that shocked the country. Police discovered that a 69-year-old man drugged his wife for at least 10 years, out of 67, so that others rape her and recorded sexual assault.

According to investigators, the abuses occurred between 2010 and 2020 in Mazan, a town of about 5,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Avignon.

The main defendant is the victim’s husband, a retired electrician named Dominique whom police began investigating in October 2020 after a supermarket guard found him surprised when trying to record under the skirts of several women from the city of Carpentras. The agents were not satisfied with his explanations and decided to examine all of his computing devices. On his computer, they found the rape videos to which his wife was subjected.

Among the detainees, who are between 24 and 71 years old, there is a driver, a journalist, a firefighter, employees and even a prison guard, the newspaper said. nice morning.

Commissioner Jérémie Bosse Platière explained to local media that this is an “unusual” rape case.

According to the researchers, the man posted pictures of his unconscious wife in sexual dating forums in which he offered to take advantage of his wife. Police believe the woman and mother of three fell asleep with anti-anxiety drugs up to 225 times a year.

The victim’s lawyer, Cathy Richard, said it was the police who “had the heavy burden” of revealing to the woman the ordeal to which her husband had subjected her. “They told her that he drugged her for a long time and delivered her to several men in the marital bed while she was sleeping,” he told the site. Raw.

Investigators also revealed that the husband asked the men whisper so as not to wake up the woman, drugged with anxiolytics “in the soup”.

The version of the accused: “they were swingers”

The lawyer for several of the defendants, Louis-Alain Lemaire, testified on the radio France Blue that “they were sure they were going meet a swinger couple, thinking that the man and the woman were perfectly fine and she agreed ”.

A version that Richard denied: “It is impossible to think that she was pretending to sleep when you see the images. It is obvious that he was unconscious. It is obvious that they did not make sure of their consent. She could not give her consent ”.

According to the lawyer, when the victim saw the footage, he said “I look like a dead woman”. They had been married since the 70s, for her “her whole life fell apart at that moment”. That day he also found an answer to the “Absences” and “forgetfulness” suffered for a decade.

Of the 45 detainees, 33 are already in preventive detention. The victim’s lawyer qualified this crime “Chemical submission rape” and, “far from the image, people take a drink of drugs in a bowling alley,” he assures us that this happens in “all social groups”. The prosecution charges them with rape and aiding and abetting offenses aggravated by the administration of substances intended to alter the victim’s judgment. According to France Blue, the woman moved out, filed for divorce, and received psychotherapy.