The husband meticulously documented his wife Gisele P.’s decade-long abus3, allowing French police to track down over 50 men suspected of r@ping her while she was dr_gged.
On the third day of the trial in Avignon, the commissioner in charge said investigators sifted through numerous phone bills, pictures, and videos and used facial recognition software to identify the suspects, all of whom were men.
“I chose to put together a very tight team of four investigators,” Jeremie Bosse Platiere, director of the Hautes-Alpes interdepartmental police force, told the court.
“And I chose people who had the stomach to face the images.”
He stated they had compiled a list of 72 people suspected of ab_sing Gisele P., 72.
The investigators identified over 200 cases of r@pe, the majority of which were committed by Dominique P. and more than 90 by strangers recruited through an adult website.
The assaults occurred between July 2011 and October 2020, primarily at the couple’s house in Mazan, a 6,000-person town in southern Provence. Given the enormous number of suspects, authorities had to make five waves of arrests between late 2020 and September 2021.
Apart from the husband, only 50 suspects, ranging in age from 26 to 74, have been identified and traced down. If found guilty of aggravated r@pe, the majority of them could face up to 20 years in prison.
