The ‘Monster of Avignon’ shocked the courtroom in Avignon with a chilling confession at his trial, which resumed on Tuesday after a hiatus due to illness. Dominique Pélicot, 71, admitted to drugging his wife,

I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court. “They knew everything. They can’t say otherwise.”

The trial of dozens of men accused of raping an unconscious woman whose husband repeatedly drugged her over the course of nearly a decade has highlighted the difficulties