A 39-year-old Austrian woman was found dead on June 25, covered in blood and discovered by her young daughter. According to police reports, she had allegedly been drugged and repeatedly raped by multiple men over an extended period. Her 51-year-old husband was initially not a suspect, as he told emergency responders that his wife had an "accident during rough sex." However, he became a person of interest after authorities searched his phone and found evidence he had deleted an app and disposed of the bed where the body was found. The search also revealed that he had looked up "how to drug someone" days before his wife's death.
An investigation found that the husband allegedly allowed men to come over and rape his wife for around £430. Both the husband and their neighbor have been taken into custody. The neighbor is accused of raping the woman on the night of her death. In a text uncovered by police, the husband told his neighbor: "I'll get her properly drunk. Then you can have sex with her again. The way she was whining the other day was amazing." In another text, he said: "If it worked, if I had date rape drugs, I would regularly make her available for you to rape."
This case has drawn comparisons to a similar situation in France involving Gisele Pelicot, who was repeatedly raped by men while being drugged by her ex-husband. Pelicot became an unwitting feminist symbol after taking the stand to expose the sexual violence she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband and dozens of other men. Her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, was found guilty of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her. His abuse came to light in September 2020 when he was arrested for taking upskirt photographs of women in a supermarket.
Police then discovered thousands of pictures and videos of the rapes stored on his computer in a folder named "abuse." At the beginning of the trial, he admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of men to rape her. The Austrian case has raised concerns about the potential for such crimes to occur in other jurisdictions and has prompted discussions about the need for stronger legal protections and awareness around date rape drugs and coercive relationships.
Austrian Woman Found Dead After Alleged Husband Facilitated Rapes, Similar to Gisele Pelicot Case
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