Her husband offered her drugged up on the internet for free

The case was discovered after Domenique was arrested in 2020, when he was caught in flagrante filming three women up their skirts in a shopping centre. French police, when checking his computer, found Thousands of images and videos of his unconscious wife being raped and battered. They said that most of them were in the fetal position.

The woman, who has remained anonymous, had the option of requesting a closed-door trial but preferred to keep it public. “That is what her attackers would have wanted,” said Antoine Camus, one of her lawyers.

Domenique, a former employee of the electricity company EDF, admitted to having administered powerful anxiolytics at night, specifically Temestawithout her being aware of it.

The trial against him and the rest of those involved will be held by a court specializing in chemical abuse and will last four months.

The 51 defendants now have between 21 and 68 years old and they come from various professions: a firefighter, a merchant, a nurse, a former police officer, an electrician, a businessman, a journalist, among them single, married or divorced. Forensic analysis has determined that none of them suffers no mental pathologyHowever, they have determined that all of them experience a feeling of superiority before the woman’s body.

Recidivism

The investigation revealed that in most cases the suspect went to the couple’s home – in the town of Mazan – on just one occasion, while ten of them returned on several occasions, several of them for up to six nights.

In their defense, many have claimed to have acted in such a way because they considered that it was an act consented to by both the woman and the husband, fruit of their open and “libertine” relationship.

However, Domenique assures that “Everyone knew his wife was on drugs. without their consent”, so all of them, if they had wanted to, could have left and not participated in the crime.

Strict rules

The men were contacted through the dating site coco.fr (closed since the plot was uncovered). Through this channel, Domenique explained clearly and concisely the strict rules they had to follow if they wanted to take advantage of his wife: not to wake her up, not smell of perfume or tobaccowarm your hands with hot water and undress in the kitchen, to avoid forgetting clothes in the bedroom.

Domenique, in addition to recording them, participated in rapes and encouraged his accomplices for that they humiliated his wife. All this for free, without asking for money in return.

All of these acts were unknown to her until she was 68, when the police caught the man she had been married to for 50 years filming up the skirts of three girls in 2020.

‘A terrible process’

According to the victim’s lawyer, Antoine Camus, “it will be a terrible thing” because “for the first time she will have to relive, in a delayed manner, the rapes she suffered for 10 years”, without having “any memory”. Camus is also defending the victim’s three children and five grandchildren.

‘Caroline Darian’, pseudonym of one of the daughters, states in her book ‘And I stopped calling you dad‘ who was also photographed naked by her father, without her consent. In addition to questioning whether she was also drugged at some point and does not remember it, something that Domenique denies.