How a safety guard helped Gisèle Pelicot uncover her husband was drugging her in marketing campaign of abuse | EUROtoday

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When Gisèle Pelicot was referred to as to speak to police in November 2020, she believed it was to debate the upskirting allegations made in opposition to her husband of fifty years.

Referring to him as a “super guy”, she had no consciousness that detectives had been about to blow aside her seemingly idyllic life with Dominique Pelicot, who she had met on the age of 19.

When he was arrested at a procuring centre two months beforehand for covertly attempting to take footage up ladies’s skirts, police had determined to grab his telephones and laptop.

They found a meticulously organised library of 20,000 pictures and movies of 71 males having intercourse with an unconscious lady. The lady was his spouse, the mom of his kids and his life-long accomplice.

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Police would go on to indicate her numerous pictures of unknown males raping her, within the place the place she ought to have been most secure; her personal bed room in her own residence.

“I asked him to stop. It was unbearable. I was inert in my bed, and a man was raping me. My world fell apart,” Gisele later instructed the jury.

Describing the pictures as “a horror scene”, she mentioned her abusers had handled her like a “garbage bag”.

It emerged that her husband had drugged and raped her for nearly a decade, in addition to arranging for dozens of males to have intercourse together with her whereas he filmed them for his personal sexual gratification.

He might by no means have been caught, had it not been for the attentive eye and intuition of a safety guard, Thibaut Rey, who confronted Pelicot over his actions within the LeClerc procuring centre.

“Pelicot didn’t resist. He froze with terror. I saw the fear in his eyes,” he instructed the Daily Mail.

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Not solely was Gisèle unaware that her husband had beforehand been caught upskirting in 2010, she was additionally left horrified when his DNA matched that of a person who had lured a younger property agent to a Paris condo, in 1999, then knocked her out with chloroform and tried to rape her.

As the extent of his abuse grew to become obvious, which included taking covert bare pictures of his pregnant daughter-in-law, Gisèle determined to waive her anonymity in a message that “shame must change sides”.

At the time the abuse was uncovered, she had been residing together with her husband of the Provencal village of Mazan, the place they’d retired after shifting from Paris in 2013.

Part of his “perfect husband” act, was to all the time supply to cook dinner dinner and to make Gisèle his raspberry and mango sorbet earlier than she went to mattress.

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She would wake within the morning in her pyjamas, feeling drained however suspecting it was attributable to strolling an excessive amount of the day before today.

Meanwhile, her husband had been assembly males on a French swingers web site, with the planning going down on a chat room referred to as “Without her knowledge”.

Men would park their automobiles down the road earlier than getting into their marital bed room, with Pelicot insisting that they keep away from smoking or sporting any perfume to keep away from detection.

Gisele instructed the jury: “I feel betrayed and raped. I’m betrayed by this man who I thought I’d spend the rest of my days with.”

He has now been jailed for 20 years, the utmost sentence, after admitting to his horrific crimes, whereas one other 50 males have been jailed alongside him.