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

Dominique Pelicot, 71, is accused of drugging his wife Gisele Pelicot, 72, before inviting men he met online to repeatedly rape her. He has now given his reason for the attacks