Dominique Pélicot shocks Avignon courtroom with confession of drugging and allowing strangers to rape his wife over a decade, authorities said.

The ‘Monster of Avignon’ shocked the courtroom in Avignon with a chilling confession at his trial, which resumed on Tuesday after a hiatus due to illness. Dominique Pélicot, 71, admitted to drugging his wife,

Dominique Pelicot surprised the courtroom in France by admitting he was a rapist and implicating the 50 co-defendants accused of sexually abusing his former wife.