The trial of a 70-year-old French husband and his rapists who drugged his wife and recruited men to sexually assault her begins.

According to a report by the daily Le Monde on the 2nd (local time), a man named Dominique (71) was indicted on charges of secretly putting sedatives in his wife’s drink from July 2011 to October 2020, rendering her unconscious, and then inviting an anonymous man he recruited through an internet chatroom to his home to sexually assault his wife.

The investigators found that a total of 72 men accepted Dominic’s proposal, and a total of 92 sexual assaults occurred during this period.

Some of these men are dead and others are unidentified, leaving 51 people on trial.

It was also found that Dominic had given the men ‘conduct guidelines’, such as not to smell like perfume or cigarettes and not to park their cars in front of the house, in order to avoid being caught in the crime.

The men involved in the crime claimed during the investigation that they thought it was a kind of ‘game’ where Dominic’s wife pretended to be asleep. They also denied the charges, saying that they were not rapists because it was Dominic who suggested the sexual assault.

Dominic’s crimes came to light in September 2020 when he was caught using his mobile phone to secretly film up women’s skirts at a local supermarket.

Authorities seized more than 20,000 pornographic photos and videos from computers seized from his home.

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Reporter Lee Hwi-kyung ddehg@wowtv.co.kr