A French woman drugged by her husband and raped by dozens of men for ten years

A total of 45 men, aged 24 to 71, were arrested in France in a case investigating the rapes suffered by a woman for ten years for her husband, who kept her kidnapped and drugged to be exploited and recorded while being abused, French police said today.

After an investigation that lasted nearly a year in Avignon, in the south of France, the police were able to identify 45 suspects, after the victim’s husband, 68, was arrested on September 12, 2020 then that he was shooting under women’s skirts in a store in the town of Carpentras.

“It’s unusual to have so much evidence in a rape case. Everything is detailed, IEven if the victim, unconscious during the rapes, remembers nothing, “commissioner Jérémie Bosse Platière of the judicial police told AFP.

“None of the authors could ignore what was going on”, insisted the commissioner. However, many did not recognize the facts until they were shown the pictures.

Apparently the victim, a mother of three, was unaware of what was going on since he discovered the breaches of the investigation. The woman was “stunned”, according to the police, and decided to settle in the Paris region.

Nine people are in pre-trial detention, while 33 others, including the husband, have been remanded in custody after being charged.

The charges brought by the prosecution range from rape and aiding and abetting offenses aggravated by the administration of a substance to alter the victim’s discernment to invasion of privacy by recording and broadcasting images. sexual.

“The husband was using strong anxiolytics to drug his wife, that she placed naked on a bed, and warmed the room to prevent her from waking up, ”explained Bosse Platière.

The case was known from an investigation by the newspaper La Provence, which reported the abuses to which women were subjected between 2010-2020.

After the husband’s arrest, the police discovered the footage of the rapes that the man had stored on his computer.

Additionally, they found messages from the husband offering his wife on Internet forums.

The police also showed their surprise that the defendants do not meet the same profile, ranging from temp, firefighter, nurse, journalist, parents, couple, divorced or single.