Frenchman Accused Of Letting Dozens Of Men Rape His Drugged Wife

Police said they found hundreds of pictures and videos of his wife on his computer, visibly unconscious and mostly in the foetal position.

The images are alleged to show dozens of rapes in the couple’s home in Mazan, a village of 6,000 people around 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Avignon in Provence.Investigators also found chats on a site called coco.fr, since shut down by police, in which he recruited strangers to come to their home and have intercourse with his wife.Dominique P. admitted to investigators that he gave his wife powerful tranquilizers, especially Temesta, an anxiety-reducing drug.The abuse started in 2011, when the couple was living near Paris, and continued after they moved to Mazan two years later. The husband took part in the rapes, filmed them and encouraged the other men using degrading language, according to prosecutors.No money changed hands.

The accused rapists include a forklift driver, a fire brigade officer, a company boss and a journalist.Some were single, others married or divorced, and some were family men. Most participated just once, but some took part up to six times.– Murder probe –Many have said they thought they were simply helping a libertine couple live out its fantasies, but Dominique P. told investigators that all were aware that his wife had been drugged without her knowledge.An expert said her state “was closer to a coma than to sleep”.

Her husband told prosecutors that only three men left the house quickly after arriving, while all others proceeded to have intercourse with his wife.Dominique P., who said he was raped by a male nurse when he was nine, is ready to face “his family and his wife”, his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told AFP.This trial may not be his last.He has also been charged with a 1991 murder and rape, which he denies, and an attempted rape in 1999, to which he admitted after DNA testing.Experts said the man does not appear to be mentally ill, but in documents seen by AFP, they said he had a need to feel “all-powerful” over the female body.

The trial is to last until December 20.