French woman tells court she ‘was sacrificed on the altar of vice’

Gisele Pelicot says police saved my life' when they investigated her husband, who has admitted drugging her and enlisting men to rape her

A French woman whose husband has admitted drugging her and inviting more than 80 men to rape her over the course of a decade has said she was sacrificed on the altar of vice" and treated like a rag doll".

Gisele Pelicot, 72, said police saved my life" when they investigated her husband Dominique Pelicot's computer in November 2020, after a security guard caught him filming up the skirts of women in a supermarket near their home in a village in southern France.