'I'm looking for a pervert accomplice to abuse my sleeping wife': How Monster of Avignon planned Gisele Pelicot's rapes with thousands of depraved chatroom messages to other deviants
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'I’m looking for a pervert accomplice to abuse my sleeping wife'. That is just one of a torrent of depraved messages sent by Dominique Pelicot to dozens of men he invited to sexually abuse his wife Gisele - each episode of which he meticulously curated and catalogued over a period of nine years.
![[Dominique Pelicot, who has allegedly drugged and raped his then-wife Gisele Pelicot, appears with his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro at the courthouse in Avignon, France, December 16, 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/13/93232123-14200829-image-a-33_1734440448999.jpg)
The 72-year-old Frenchman - dubbed the 'Monster of Avignon' - has confessed to orchestrating the sick rape ring in which he used an online chat room to source a slew of 'recruits' to take part in his twisted fantasies. Once an appropriate accomplice had been vetted and primed, Mr Pelicot would drug his wife with powerful tranquilisers and invite the stranger to their family home to defile the paralysed, snoring victim for the camera.
![[Gisele Pelicot leaves after a hearing with the defense's final arguments in the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93186203-14200829-Gisele_Pelicot_leaves_after_a_hearing_with_the_defense_s_final_a-a-30_1734449139971.jpg)
Police uncovered more than 20,000 photos and images of Gisele being sexually assaulted by a total of 72 strangers - 50 of whom have been identified - as she lay comatose in bed. It was from those officers in 2020, almost a decade after her torturous ordeal began in 2011, that Gisele learned the dark truth.
![[This court sketch created on October 11, 2024, shows defendant Dominique Pelicot (C) looking up in front of his former partner Gisele Pelicot (R) during his trial]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/93186205-14200829-This_court_sketch_created_on_October_11_2024_shows_defendant_Dom-a-31_1734449146349.jpg)
For years she had witnessed her health deteriorating, her worsening memory loss leading her to believe she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease while she battled what seemed to be a growing abundance of gynaecological problems. Now more than four years after Mr Pelicot was first arrested for filming up the skirts of female shoppers in a supermarket, Gisele's abusive spouse and his co-accused are set to face justice.
![[Dominque Pelicot (pictured) is accused of drugging his ex wife Gisele and inviting dozens of men to rape her while he watched and filmed them over a decade long period of hell]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/15/91232383-14200829-Dominque_Pelicot_pictured_is_accused_of_drugging_his_ex_wife_Gis-a-32_1734449152863.jpg)
