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,

I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court. “They knew everything. They can’t say otherwise.”

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