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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jane Dalton

‘I didn’t believe it was me in the photos’: Gisèle Pelicot recalls horror of learning her husband drugged her for mass rape

The police officer had to break it to her gently. First, he asked Gisèle Pelicot whether she thought she knew her husband Dominique so well that he couldn’t hide anything from her. She said yes.

He also asked whether the couple ever swapped partners. “I heard myself stammering that swinging was inconceivable for me. I couldn’t bear other men touching me. I needed feelings,” she recalls.

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