  Mazan Villiers-sur-Marne Drôme Villeparisis Mazan rapes (France) | |
| Native name | Viols de Mazan |
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| Date | July 2011 – October 2020 |
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| Also known as | Pélicot case |
| Type | Rape |
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| Charges | Aggravated rape |
In September 2024, Dominique Pélicot, a then-71-year-old man from Mazan in south-eastern France, testified in court that he repeatedly drugged his wife, raped her, and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious.[1] Over a period of nine years, from July 2011 to October 2020, Gisèle Pélicot, who was unaware of the abuse being perpetrated against her, was raped 92 times by 72 men, as her husband filmed the abuse. The abuse only came to light in September 2020 when Dominique Pélicot was arrested for taking upskirt photographs of women in a supermarket, and police thereafter discovered thousands of images and videos that Pélicot had taken of the rapes and stored on his computing equipment. Pélicot is also accused of training Jean-Pierre Maréchal to drug and rape his own wife. The trial in Avignon of Dominique Pélicot and 50 other men accused of the rapes began on 2 September 2024, and is scheduled to conclude in mid-December.
- ^ Holly Richardson (September 17, 2024). "Dominique Pélicot says, ‘I am a rapist’," Deserte News/Yahoo.