Chemical submission is at the heart of an extraordinary trial that opened on Monday, September 2 before the criminal court of Avignon, in the south of France. Dominique Pélicot is being prosecuted, in particular, for aggravated rape. This 71-year-old man is accused of having recruited strangers on the internet to rape his wife, after drugging her with anxiolytics. Fifty men are appearing alongside him, in a trial that is expected to last four months.
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Chemical submission and rape: in France, the extraordinary trial of Dominique Pélicot begins
