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Dominique Pélicot tells French trial: ‘I am a rapist,’ as he returns to dock
Pélicot’s testimony set to be decisive for 50 other men accused of raping his then wife Gisèle over nine-year period
A 71-year-old French man accused of drugging his wife so that he and dozens of strangers could sexually assault her at her home has told a court that he admitted the charges and was a rapist.
“I am a rapist, like the others in this room,” Dominique Pélicot said, quietly and calmly, as he looked across the courtroom at the 50 other men who are also on trial accused of raping his wife in her own bed while she was drugged and in a state akin to a “deep coma”.
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