"One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gisèle Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a picturesque town in Provence. She asked to meet the security guard who, four years earlier, had confronted her husband, Dominique, after observing Dominique trying to use his phone to film up the skirts of unsuspecting female shoppers."
"The guard had been irate at the time. He had been thinking, he later told the Daily Mail, about his mother and sister, who shopped at that supermarket and might have been vulnerable to this creep with a cameraphone. Police officers who arrested Dominique Pelicot went to his home, seized his personal devices, and found more than 20,000 images and videos of Dominique-and of other men he had invited into his home-raping his drugged wife."
Gisèle Pelicot endured almost a decade of being drugged and violently assaulted by her husband, Dominique. Dominique secretly filmed upskirting and used online chat rooms to recruit men to his home, where he and invited men raped his drugged wife. A supermarket security guard who confronted Dominique over upskirting prompted a police investigation that led to his arrest. Police seized personal devices containing more than 20,000 images and videos documenting multiple assaults. Fifty-one defendants were convicted of varying charges, many for aggravated rape, and Dominique, age 73, received a 20-year prison sentence.
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