French husband kept detailed records of sexual abuse of his wife, court told
A Frenchman accused of orchestrating multiple rapes of his wife kept detailed records of the decade-long abuse, enabling police to compile a list of more than 70 men suspected of abusing her. Dominique P., is accused of drugging his wife with sleeping pills and then recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her between 2011 and 2020.
An investigator leading the probe into a French man accused of orchestrating multiple rapes of his wife told a court Wednesday of painstaking efforts to identify the perpetrators via the husband’s detailed records of the assaults.
Dominique P., a 71-year-old retiree, had abused his wife between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and then recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her.
He documented the decade-long abuse of his wife, Gisele P., with meticulous precision, allowing French police to track down more than 50 men suspected of raping her while she was drugged.
On the third day of the trial in the southern city of Avignon, the commissioner in charge of the inquiry said investigators sifted through numerous telephone bills, pictures and videos and used facial recognition software to identify the suspects, all of them men.
“I chose to put together a very tight team of four investigators,” Jeremie Bosse Platiere, director of the Hautes-Alpes interdepartmental police force, told the court.
“And I chose people who had the stomach to face the images.”
“In reality, you hear whispers,” he said.
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