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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Woman tells trial of husband who invited men to rape her: ‘I was sacrificed on altar of vice’

Gisèle Pélicot listening to her lawyer Stephane Babonneau  addressing media as she left the courthouse on Thursday.
Gisèle Pélicot, with her lawyer Stéphane Babonneau in Avignon, has waived her right to anonymity for the trial to be held in public. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images

A French woman whose husband has admitted drugging her and inviting more than 80 men to rape her over the course of a decade has said she “was sacrificed on the altar of vice” and treated “like a rag doll”.

Gisèle Pélicot, 72, said “police saved my life” when they investigated her husband, Dominique Pélicot’s, computer in November 2020, after a security guard caught him filming up the skirts of women in a supermarket near their home in a village in southern France.

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