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A 71-year-old man ended up in court in France on a report that he repeatedly drugged and raped his wife, but also organized dozens of other foreigners to sexually abuse her.
Named Dominik P, he is accused of recruiting strangers to come to his home and rape the victim over the Internet for more than a decade.
The woman was heavily sedated so that she was not aware of the misdeeds that would be repeated again and again, her lawyers say.
The case horrified France due to the scale of serious crimes.
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The police found at least 92 rapes committed by 72 men.
Fifty have been identified and charged and are being tried together with their wives.
The victim, who is now 72 years old, only found out about the abuse in 2020 after she was informed by the police.
The trial will be a "terrible ordeal" for her, said her lawyer Antoine Camus, as it will be the first time she has seen video evidence of the abuse.
"For the first time, she will have to relive the rapes she suffered for "more than ten years," the lawyer told the AFP news agency.
Dominik P. became part of a police investigation after an incident in September 2020, when a security guard caught him secretly filming up the skirts of three women in a mall.
The police then found hundreds of pictures and videos of his wife on his computer, in which she appeared to be unconscious.
The images allegedly show dozens of attacks that took place in the couple's home.
The abuse allegedly began in 2011.
Investigators also found correspondence on the website in which Dominik P. allegedly recruited foreigners to come to their home and rape his wife.
He admitted that he gave his wife strong sedatives, such as an anxiety medication.
He is accused of taking part in the rapes, filming them and encouraging other men using degrading language, prosecutors said.
The money was allegedly not part of the crime.
The accused rapists, aged between 26 and 74, were from different walks of life and while most participated once, some returned up to six times, according to prosecutors.
Their defense is that they were helping the couple fulfill their own fantasies, but Dominik P. told investigators that everyone knew his wife was drugged without her knowledge.
One expert indicated that her condition was "closer to coma than sleep".
Dominik P, who said he was raped when he was nine, is ready to face "his family and his wife", his lawyer Beatrice Zavaro told the AFP news agency.
He is also accused of murder and rape in 1991, which he denies, and attempted rape in 1999, which he admitted after DNA testing.
The trial, which is being held in Avignon, in southern France, will last until December 20.
On Monday, the day the trial began, the woman appeared in court with the support of her three children, AFP reported.
Kami, her lawyer, said that she could have opted for a trial behind closed doors, but that "that is what her attackers would have wanted".
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