Monster of Avignon is convicted of raping Gisele Pelicot and the wife of another man as judge begins announcing verdicts for 51 men accused of sexually assaulting their drugged victim
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Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty of the aggravated rape of his wife Gisele Pelicot and the rape of another woman - the wife of one of his co-defendants. The 72-year-old, who has been dubbed the Monster of Avignon, faces 20 years in jail, with his sentence yet to be announced.
![[Gisele Pelicot was cheered by crowds as she arrived at court in Avignon ahead of the verdicts]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/08/93304231-14208993-image-a-59_1734596206184.jpg)
Judges have also found him guilty of the illegal broadcast of images and of recording images of two other women. Police found some 20,000 lurid images and videos of Pelicot's wife being abused, as well as pictures of his daughter naked, in files on his computer.
![[Crowds of journalists and members of the public gathered at the entrance of the courthouse in Avignon and Gisele Pelicot arrived this morning]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/08/93304663-14208993-image-a-65_1734597027896.jpg)
Gisele Pelicot arrived at the courthouse with her lawyers to see the verdicts delivered in the case, which has spanned more than three months. Her three children arrived moments before to see their father and his accomplices served justice. The perpetrators of France's most notorious sex crime in which the 72-year-old grandmother was raped by dozens of men after being drugged by her depraved husband will learn their fate today as judges begin to deliver their verdicts.
![[The Pelicots' youngest son Florian and daughter Caroline Darian speak inside the courthouse]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/08/93304369-14208993-image-a-61_1734596428690.jpg)
The 50 men from all walks of life face a combined sentence of more than 600 years for their parts in Dominique Pelicot's warped ten-year campaign in which he watched his wife being abused while knocked out with powerful sedatives. Pelicot, 72, who has failing health, has accepted that he will die behind bars, with his daughter yelling at him during the trial: 'You will die alone like a dog and caught out in lies!'.
![[Caroline Darian and David Pelicot, the children of Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, the victim of an alleged mass rape orchestrated by her then-husband Dominique Pelicot, arrive to witness the verdict in the trial for Dominique Pelicot and 50 co-accused]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/07/93303631-14208993-Caroline_Darian_and_David_the_children_of_Frenchwoman_Gisele_Pel-m-45_1734594872950.jpg)
