A French man accused of drugging his unsuspecting wife and then filming at least 51 men raping her over a decade-long stretch allegedly insisted to investigators that she is a “saint” and “the love of his life.”
The husband, identified only as Dominique P, allegedly mixed the anti-anxiety drug Lorazepam into his wife’s dinner dozens of times between 2011 and 2020, prosecutors alleged in a recent court filing obtained by La Monde.
Dominique, who was married to the victim for more than 50 years, would then invite his “guests” to the couple’s home in Provence so they could allegedly perform sexual acts on his wife while she was passed out.
The husband, who prosecutors say found the alleged perps on a French internet forum, allegedly filmed the rapes on hidden cameras.
After the sick allegations first came to light in 2020, Dominique — who shares three adult children with the victim — allegedly told investigators in subsequent interrogations that he still loves his wife and described her as a “saint.”
“She was his first love, indeed the only love of his life,” his lawyer, Béatrice Navarro, claimed.
A total of 51 men, between the ages of 26 and 73, have already been charged with rape over the attacks on Dominique’s wife. It wasn’t immediately clear what charges the husband is facing for his alleged role.
The case was recently presented to an investigating magistrate — otherwise known as a judge — pending a trial, according to Le Monde.
The heinous allegations only surfaced in late 2020 when Dominique was arrested for allegedly trying to film women in a changing room at a local store with a hidden camera.
Cops subsequently found the videos of his wife saved on a USB in a file named “ABUSES.”
When authorities went to the wife, she initially described him as a “great guy” who was “kind and caring.”
The wife said he had tried to convince her to engage in partner-swapping but she’d refused because “she didn’t like to be touched without having feelings.”
She broke down when investigators informed her of the secret tapes, prosecutors said.
The wife said she’d had flashbacks and that the drugging could explain the fatigue and absent-mindedness she had been experiencing.
Subsequent medical tests revealed the wife was suffering from four different sexually transmitted diseases.
Dominique’s wife filed for divorce after the allegations came to light.