TRUTH IS OUT

Gisele Pelicot, 72, says she was ‘treated like a rag doll’ during alleged abuse over a decade A woman who was allegedly repeatedly drugged and raped by her now-ex husband and dozens of men he invited into their home has told his trial that her world collapsed after she was “sacrificed on the altar of vice”. Speaking in a calm and clear voice, Gisele Pelicot, 72, detailed to the court in the southern France city of Avignon the horror of discovering that Dominique Pelicot, 71, systematically filmed the suspected rapes by dozens of men while she was unconcious – storing thousands of images that police investigators later found. “I was sacrificed on the altar of vice,” she testified. “They regarded me like a rag doll, like a garbage bag... I no longer have an identity. I don’t know if I’ll ever rebuild myself. “For me, everything collapses. These are scenes of barbarity, of rape.” She told the court – having waived her right to anonymity – that she hopes her testimony might hel...