'My world is falling apart... these are scenes of horror,' says victim.
A French woman whose husband is accused of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape her while she was drugged told a court yesterday that police had saved her by uncovering the crimes.
"The police saved my life by investigating Mister P's computer," Gisele P told the court in the southern city of Avignon, referring to her husband - one of 51 of her alleged abusers on trial.
Gisele P, now 71, remained stoic and silent through the three first days of the high-profile case, communicating only through her lawyers.
But she revealed her emotion on the stand yesterday when she recounted the moment in November 2020 when investigators first showed her the images of a decade of sexual abuse orchestrated and filmed by her husband Dominique P.
"My world is falling apart. For me, everything is falling apart. Everything I have built up over 50 years," Gisele P said.
"These are scenes of horror for me," she said of the pictures, while her husband listened with his head bowed.
"I'm lying motionless on the bed, being raped," added the woman of the "barbaric" footage.
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