Ex–Wife of ‘Monster of Avignon’ Speaks Out After Shock Rape Confession

The ex-wife of the so-called ‘Monster of Avignon’ spoke out after her former husband stunned a French courtroom by admitting all the abuse charges against him and saying: “I am a rapist like the others in the room.”

Dominique Pelicot’s surprise confession that he drugged and raped his unwitting wife Gisèle over 10 years during their outwardly happy marriage also appears to have implicated the 50 co-defendants accused of sexually assaulting her.

“They all knew, they cannot say the contrary,” said Pelicot, a 71-year-old former electrician.

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