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‘Disciple’ of accused rapist drugged and raped his own wife, French court told

A court artist’s sketch of Dominique Pélicot and his lawyer in court
A court artist’s sketch of Dominique Pélicot and his lawyer in court on Wednesday. Photograph: Zziigg/Reuters

The trial of a French man who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife has heard how another man living in the same area copied the tactics to drug and rape his own wife.

Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial in the southern city of Avignon for repeatedly raping, and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape, his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a period of a decade in the southern village of Mazan. Fifty other men aged between 26 and 74 are also on trial for their alleged involvement.

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