Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his spouse to sleep and recruiting dozens of males to abuse her for over 10 years, has admitted to all the costs towards him in his first testimony for the reason that trial opened on 2 September.
Referring to the 50 co-defendants who’re accused of raping his now ex-wife Gisèle, Mr Pelicot mentioned: “I’m a rapist just like the others on this room.”
“All of them knew, they can not say the opposite,” he mentioned.
Of his ex-wife, he mentioned: “She didn’t deserve this.”