Avignon rape trial: woman offered in exchange for gardening

Rape trial
Avignon main defendant offered wife in exchange for gardening

Gisèle P. was drugged by her husband for years and abused by strange men

Gisèle P. was drugged by her husband for years and abused by strange men

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Another witness has testified in the sensational rape trial. In court he reported at what price Dominique P. offered his wife for sex.

According to the interviewee, the main defendant, Dominique P., is said to have told him that at the time Offering to rape Ms. Gisèle P. in exchange for gardening work. 42-year-old Jérôme B. testified in court on Tuesday that he turned down the offer because Dominique P. told him that he was drugging his wife with sleeping pills.

Gisèle P’s ex-husband has confessed to repeatedly drugging his wife with sleeping pills and raping her from 2011 to 2020. In at least 92 cases, strange men who Dominique P. had contacted in internet forums were also involved.

This was discovered when he was targeted by the judiciary for another offense and investigators came across around 4,000 photos and videos of rape of the apparently unconscious woman. The investigators identified 50 of them who now have to stand trial alongside the main defendant. They face prison sentences of up to 20 years.

Court in Avignon: Defendant rejected offer

Dominique P. had also created a folder with the name Jérôme B., but the investigators found no photos or videos in it because there was never a meeting. “He asks me to do gardening and in return he offers me his wife,” said B., describing the communication with the main defendant. “I offer him a Saturday morning, he says no because he gives her a pill to make her sleep.”

“He adds that he drugs his wife and offers her to men very often,” B continued. “I answer him that this is rape and that I don’t agree with it.”

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