Dominique Pélicot, 71, accused of raping, and recruiting strangers to rape, sedated wife for a decade
Dominique Pélicot, right, and 50 other men are being tried in Avignon. One other defendant will be judged in absentia.Dominique Pélicot, right, and 50 other men are being tried in Avignon. One other defendant will be judged in absentia.A French man on trial for recruiting dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife without her knowledge was a “self-centred” manipulator with a split personality, experts have told a court.
Most of the alleged rapes took place in the Pélicot home in Mazan, a village of about 6,000 people in Provence. “The sexuality of Mr Pélicot appears modelled on his character: ordinary in public but within his couple, he had a tenacious sexuality, as seen in the swinging that his wife refused and which he compensated for by using porn chat websites,” she said.
Another expert had on Friday described him as having a “split” personality, drawing a comparison with the eponymous character in the book Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.Pélicot’s sons David and Florian, his son-in-law Pierre P, and his brother Joel, a retired doctor, were also to give testimony on Monday.
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