EU’s New Vaccine Card Is Step Towards Mandatory Vaccinations & Restrictions On Freedoms
by Niamh Harris, The Peoples Voice:
A pilot project for a new vaccination passport is to be launched shortly in five Europen countries.
It is being claimed that the the European Vaccination Card aims to “foster informed decision-making on vaccination, and improve continuity of care across the EU”
But it is actually stepping stone for mandatory vaccinations and is also connected to large financial interests that have plans to limit personal and national sovereignty.
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Expose News reports: The European Vaccination Card (“EVC”) is a digital or printed card that aims to consolidate all vaccination data for a person in one easily accessible location. It is a key tool introduced by the European Union’s EUVABECO project.
The EVC will store a person’s vaccination history, including dates, vaccine types and dosages. It will enable seamless transfer of vaccination records across countries, making it easier for people to travel and receive vaccinations while abroad. The card’s QR code will be validated by healthcare professionals, ensuring the accuracy and authenticity of the vaccination data.
The EVC will leverage the Global Digital Health Certification Network (“GDHCN”), a certification network managed by the World Health Organisation (“WHO”), to ensure the authenticity of digital vaccination records. This network was developed during the covid-19 pandemic for the EU Digital Covid Certificate and has since been expanded to support other digital health certificates.
Funded by the European Commission’s EU4Health programme, the European Vaccination Beyond Covid, or EUVABECO, project is expected to launch pilot projects on 1 September 2024 and conclude on 28 February 2026, according to Rīga Stradiņš University Research Portal.
Last month, Vaccines Today, an online platform for discussing vaccines and vaccination, published an article about the EVC:
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McCain’s Son Feigns Outrage over Trump Cemetery Visit Despit Dad’s Ad
Army 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, the son of late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), feigned outrage over former President Donald Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery despite his father making an ad there.
During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday, the younger McCain blasted Trump for honoring the 13 fallen U.S. service members who were killed during the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan.
When asked “why” he had described Trump’s visit to the cemetery as a “violation,” McCain explained that the people buried at the cemetery “don’t have an opinion” and the point of the cemetery is to go and “show respect for the men and women” who have served.
“As you well know, sir, Arlington Cemetery is sacred to all people who are members of the military, all people who have served in uniform,” McCain said. “It’s a sacred area. There’s three generations of McCains that are buried there. It’s a violation because these rules are set in place. … the point of Arlington Cemetery is to go and show respect for the men and women who have given their lives for this country. When you make it political, you take away the respect of the people who are there.”
The comment from the younger McCain comes after his father used footage from Arlington National Cemetery in a campaign advertisement in 1999.
A spokesman from McCain’s campaign revealed in November 1999 that footage from the cemetery would be removed from the campaign ad, according to the Los Angeles Times:
The Army said this week that the Arizonan’s campaign did not ask permission to film him at the cemetery. Any request to do so would have been denied because partisan activity is banned at Army installations, the Army said. McCain acknowledged that his campaign erred and sent a letter to the Army saying that the scenes would be cut.
When Tapper mentioned how his father had used footage from Arlington National Cemetery in an ad and how Trump’s visit to the cemetery had “bothered” McCain’s son, the younger McCain pointed out that his father “pulled it down.”
“The first thing about John McCain, you don’t spend that long in politics without messing up once or twice,” the younger McCain said. “The main point is that he pulled it down and he understood the solemn — the sanctified nature of that — of Arlington National Cemetery. So, if Donald Trump pulled it down and apologized, it would be the right thing to do.”
In the aftermath of Trump’s visit to the cemetery, NPR released an article alleging that Trump campaign officials had gotten into a ” verbal and physical altercation” with a cemetery official who had been attempting to prevent them from filming and taking photos in Section 60 of the cemetery.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung addressed the allegations by explaining that a “private photographer was permitted on the premises.”
Cheung also shared a photo in a post on X showing that “only” Trump was allowed to “have an official photographer and/or videographer outside of the main media pool” at the cemetery.
We were granted access to have a photographer there. https://t.co/s2E9lNdksK pic.twitter.com/dXbZ03hwzB
— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) August 27, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris later issued a statement attacking Trump for visiting the cemetery and described it as a “political stunt.”
In response to Harris’s statement, Trump released videos from several family members of the 13 fallen U.S. servicemembers who lost their lives during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, slamming Harris for “playing politics” and releasing a “heinous, vile and disgusting” statement.
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Globalism Is Economic Slavery | ZeroHedge
Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com,
Imagine life in the near future. ..
A man resides alone in a tiny apartment. He would prefer to be married, but the State considers that antiquated institution “patriarchal” and “white supremacist.” He would prefer to have children, but he can’t afford them. Besides, his yearly carbon allowance is insufficient to cover another resource-wasting human being.
He has never owned anything. He rents his bedroom, his furnishings, and his meager entertainments. Each month, a digital account associated with his digital ID receives a number of central bank digital currency units. How much he receives depends upon the number of hours he works at his government job, how much the government values his work, how much the government taxes him for the privilege of using public infrastructure, and how much of his income the government decides should be redistributed to other citizens in need. After taxes, rents, utilities, and other assorted municipal, state, federal, and international fees are deducted from his earnings, he has little — if any — discretionary income.
If he chooses to save that income to invest in his future, the government informs him that his central bank digital currency units disappear within ninety days. If he tries to purchase something that the government has banned, he forfeits what he currently has. If he does something that the government deems contrary to his well-being, his social credit score decreases, and a fraction of his discretionary income disappears. Every few weeks, a digital doctor (running on artificial intelligence) appears on the video screen in his apartment with a detailed list of all the “unhealthy” things he has done since their last interaction. He is informed that a portion of his temporary savings will be redistributed to citizens with healthier habits. His A.I. health monitor tells him that he must immediately report to the closest pharmaceutical distribution center so that he can be injected with the latest “vaccines.” Failure to do so will result in the deactivation of all electronic entertainment devices and a permanent mark on his social credit record.
He is unhappy, and because the State’s A.I. supervisor has detected his unhappiness, the display monitor in his apartment encourages him to find personal meaning by “joining the fight against global warming.” For a while, he does just that. He attends community meetings in his apartment building where government officials talk about the importance of “saving the planet” by “owning nothing.” He chats with anonymous strangers (bots?) on the State’s social media platform, and they all agree that the sacrifices they’re making to save the world are definitely worth it. He wakes up one morning to discover that his social credit score has risen and that he has been rewarded with a few extra central bank digital currency units. Still, our future man remains unhappy.
Then one day sirens blare, and his apartment monitor flashes with breaking news: the country is at war. He listens intently but can’t figure out which foreign nations are attacking. The trusted news anchors tell him that peace, prosperity, and freedom are all at risk. He steps outside his tiny apartment to find other solitary renters fired up and talking excitedly about the battles to come. He walks back inside to find his A.I. supervisor informing him that he has been personally selected to protect the homeland from its enemies. For the first time in many years, our future man feels alive.
He soon finds himself in boot camp, where he enjoys regular exercise, discipline, and camaraderie. Six months later, he and his new friends are shipped overseas. Strangely, in all this time, nobody has explained whom they will actually be fighting. All he knows is that they’re at war with “the authoritarians” who wish to “take our democracy.” There is anticipation in his camp and endless talk of adventure. Then, when everyone least expects it, a thunderous swarm of drones attacks from overhead. Nobody has time to react. Explosions seem to come from out of nowhere. He sees the bodies of his friends torn to pieces. Then everything goes dark.
He awakes in a hospital severely injured, is called a hero, and is later sent home. When he arrives, he notices breadlines outside the government’s genetically engineered food distribution centers. He hears a beggar on the street joke that they should call them “insect-lines,” since that’s all there is to eat. He learns that someone else has moved into his old apartment, but he is offered a new one because of his military service. It is smaller and has even fewer furnishings than the one he lost. He realizes that most of his former neighbors never returned from war and that many of the newcomers now living in their apartments look and sound like those people he was told to fight overseas. Nothing makes sense. His injuries torment him. He feels even more lost and lonely than before he went to war. His A.I. supervisor informs him that he has been added to a list of people considered “potential domestic terrorists.” Remaining on this list will make it hard for him to work and live.
Then, one day, his digital doctor asks if he would like some assistance in ending his life peacefully. “You can save others,” he is told, “by permanently reducing your carbon footprint.” In agony, he wonders, “How did we get here?”
The shortest answer to our future friend is this: governments abandoned sound money. They replaced gold coins with paper currencies. They made it illegal for ordinary citizens to conduct business freely and demanded that government-issued bills be used in economic transactions. Then they gave private central banks the authority to print these paper bills whenever they determined that doing so would be good for the economy.
Whose economy do wealthy central bankers protect — Wall Street’s or that of the working class? Although putatively charged with financial duties to maximize employment and minimize inflation, central banks function as market manipulators and money printers for overspending governments. By increasing the supply of paper currency, the price of consumer goods rises. However, the numerical price of stock market shares also goes up. These capital assets do not gain any real value, but their rising prices give the illusion of economic growth. Many bad companies that would never survive in a free market become lucrative investment opportunities in fake markets. Easy money sustains companies that produce no market value. Who loses most in this artificial arrangement? The poorest people who have no stocks and only limited cash savings. They have watched the hundred-dollar bill hidden under their mattresses lose most of its value over the last fifty years.
Neither fiat currencies nor central banks have any functional place in free societies. Governments that manipulate the value of money rig markets and steal from the working poor. The wealthiest end up owning everything, while everyone else tries to balance life precariously on a tightrope of consumer debts, mortgages, long-term loans, and the growing prospect of insolvency. This world that financial and political elites have built is unsustainable. It is also a kind of economic slavery.
Because it is unsustainable, those who have benefited most from its creation will do anything they must to survive its collapse. A crashing dollar does not matter if those who control the financial system today control the central bank digital currencies of tomorrow. Gross inequality and rampant poverty do not matter if governments can convince unhappy citizens that climate change, disease, and war require them to own less and sacrifice more. Growing public anger does not matter if those with armies can censor speech, throttle food supplies, foment wars, and imprison dissidents.
Ponder this: how much of the story above seems foreign, and how much of it seems painfully familiar? Your answer tells us just how much time we have left.
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States Should Pass Proof of Citizenship Laws to Register to Vote
Now that the Supreme Court has affirmed states can require proof of citizenship to register to vote, Republican governors and lawmakers should pass such election integrity measures ahead of Election Day, calling special sessions if their state constitution allows it.
Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002 (HAVA), which created the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). That law also empowered the EAC to design a federal voter registration form that could be used in every state as an alternative to each state’s standard form.
Arizona has required proof of citizenship to register since 2004. In 2013, the Supreme Court noted in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council that HAVA allows people to register to vote with a federal form and does not require citizenship proof, and EAC designed a form that does not require proof. So the court held 7-2 that only federal law applies when people use the federal form, which means that people using that form in Arizona do not need to prove they are citizens.
More recently, Arizona passed an election integrity law in 2022. That law extended Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship requirement to also cover presidential elections and vote by mail. The Left sued and the case is on appeal. While that appeal is ongoing, the Supreme Court split on what to do with that statute while the lawsuit continues.
Last month the justices upheld the provision requiring proof of citizenship when registering on a state form. However, they allowed a lower court to block the provisions requiring that same proof for presidential voting and mail-in voting.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch voted to uphold the proof requirement for the entire Arizona law. The liberal justices, plus Amy Coney Barrett, voted to block all of it. John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh took the middle position that carried the day.
But this ruling also suggests next steps for public policy: Five justices agree that states can require proof of citizenship to register to vote. In a year when Virginia removes over 6,000 noncitizens from its voter rolls and then Texas does the same, lawmakers should realize that even a small number of illegal aliens casting votes can change the outcome of a close election.
Now a majority of the Supreme Court has signaled that requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is allowed under federal law. And polls show over 86 percent of Americans agree that noncitizens should never participate in U.S. elections.
All that being the case, Republican governors should call their legislatures into special session if their state constitutions and state laws give governors the option to do so on short notice. They should convene and immediately pass a requirement like Arizona’s.
Our elections will become more secure and voter confidence in our system will be strengthened. And poll numbers like those shown above indicate that voters will applaud these laws. It is both good policy and good politics — which is every politician’s dream tea.
The election is only two months away. But so many states have registration deadlines shorter than that — some even allow people to both register and vote at the same time on Election Day — that these laws could do some real good very quickly, starting in 2024.
For states where the law does not allow calling special sessions so quickly, conservatives should run on this issue, promising to introduce legislation in January. But in states where the laws on the books allow an option like this, there is not a moment to lose.
Ken Blackwell is Chairman of the Center for Election Integrity at America First Policy Institute and served as a U.S. Ambassador and Ohio Secretary of State.
Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Klukowski is a lawyer who served in the White House and Justice Department. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @kenklukowski.
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Feds: Top Aide to Govs. Cuomo, Hochul Worked as Agent of Influence for China
A former top aide to New York Govs. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Kathy Hochul (D) used her high-ranking position in the state’s government to peddle influence for China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while profiting millions in the process, an unsealed federal indictment alleges.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment against 41-year-old Linda Sun, born in China and a naturalized American citizen, and her husband, 40-year-old Chris Hu. The indictment charges the couple with operating a money laundering and bank fraud scheme thanks in part to Sun’s allegedly acting as an agent of influence for China while working in Cuomo and Hochul’s administrations.
The couple were arrested and arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
The 64-page indictment is far-reaching, detailing Sun’s alleged work as an agent for China and her husband’s subsequent illegal business dealings in China. In particular, the indictment lays out how Sun allegedly acted on behalf of the CCP while working for Cuomo, who is called “Politician-1,” and Hochul, who is called “Politician-2.” The indictment states:
The defendant LINDA SUN acted at the order, direction, or request of representatives of the [People’s Republic of China (PRC)] government and the CCP to engage in political activities intended to influence the public, including the [New York State (NYS)] government, with respect to the political or public interests of the PRC government and the CCP.
Linda Sun, seen in this photo taken by a local New York media outlet, attends a 2019 protest in Manhattan against the Taiwanese President’s visit to New York City. (Photo via Department of Justice)
Sun, in various instances, allegedly prevented Cuomo and Hochul from working, engaging, and speaking with Taiwanese officials. At the same time, Sun allegedly had Cuomo and Hochul make seemingly pro-China statements to appease CCP officials.
During the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in April 2020, for example, the Taiwanese government donated 200,000 masks to New York. When Taiwanese officials pressed why then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office had not made any public announcement about the donation, Sun allegedly phoned her contact in the CCP to make them aware that Hochul would be only privately calling to thank such Taiwanese officials for the donation.
“Taipei economic and cultural office donated 200,000 surgical masks. No formal acknowledgment but I will be arranging for [Politician-2] to call their office to thank them. Just wanted to update you,” Sun allegedly wrote to her CCP contact.
That same month, Sun’s CCP contact told her that various China-based organizations would be donating about 1,000 ventilators to New York’s hospital association amid the pandemic. Sun, the indictment alleges, told her CCP contact that she would have then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo call him to thank him for the donation and that she would have him thank China publicly for the donation.
On April 4, via Twitter, Cuomo publicly thanked China:
We finally got some good news today.
The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will arrive in JFK today.
I thank the Chinese government, Jack Ma, Joe Tsai, the Jack Ma Foundation, the Tsai Foundation and Consul General Huang.
— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 4, 2020
In another instance, Sun allegedly worked directly with her CCP contacts to shape a Lunar New Year message that would be delivered by Hochul in early 2021. The CCP contacts got an advance draft of Hochul’s remarks and Sun allegedly made sure that the lieutenant governor made no mention of China’s detention of Uyghurs.
“Based on feedback from a PRC government official, SUN took action to ensure that Politician-2 did not publicly address the detention of Uyghurs in PRC state-run camps in Xinjiang Province,” the indictment reads:
In fact, in her public Lunar New Year message for 2021, Politician-2 did not refer to the plight of Uyghurs in the PRC. PRC Official-1 posted Politician-2’s Lunar New Year message to the PRC Consulate Facebook page. [Emphasis added]
Hochul’s Lunar New Year message remains posted on Facebook:
Sun also allegedly worked hard to ensure that Cuomo, as New York governor, did not officially recognize Taiwan and did not refer to China as the “Republic of China.”
“In late August 2019, the defendant LINDA SUN provided an edit to a draft statement by Politician-1 in order to avoid any state recognition of Taiwan,” the indictment states:
The draft statement commemorated soldiers and veterans of the U.S. and Taiwanese armed forces. SUN’s sole proposed edit to the statement was the following: “Politically can we refrain from using the phrase ‘Republic of China’ so as to avoid creating an international incident by recognizing Taiwan.” In an internal email, SUN eventually indicated her approval of a draft statement that removed all references to the “Republic of China.” [Emphasis added]
In June 2018, Sun allegedly committed visa fraud and forged formal invitations to invite CCP officials from the Henan Province in China to meet with Hochul in New York to discuss enhancing cooperation between the two states.
Hochul can seemingly be seen meeting with the Henan Province officials in a photo included in the indictment:
Photo via Department of Justice
Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sun allegedly worked with her CCP contacts to organize an official trip to China for Hochul where she would visit China’s largest electric bus factory in the Henan Province as well as Zhengzhou University.
The trip ultimately did not happen. Sun told her CCP contacts that she had spoken with Hochul about visiting China and that the lieutenant governor did not want to make such a trip at the time.
As part of her and her husband’s services, the indictment alleges that Sun was rewarded with millions from the CCP — allowing them to purchase in cash a $3.6 million home in Manhasset, New York, and a $1.9 million condominium in Honolulu, Hawaii, along with a recently purchased Ferrari Roma.
“SUN never disclosed any benefits she received from representatives of the PRC government and the CCP to the NYS government, as she was required to do as a NYS government employee,” the indictment reads.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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US fines ratings agencies for ‘significant’ recordkeeping failures
The US market regulator charged and fined six major ratings agencies on Tuesday, including Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, over what it called “significant recordkeeping failures.”
The six agencies were fined a total of more than $49 million “for significant failures by the firms and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications,” the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a statement.
The biggest civil penalties were handed out to the three major US ratings agencies, with Moody’s and S&P Global Ratings both agreeing to pay a $20 million civil penalty, while Fitch Ratings agreed to pay $8 million.
The three other agencies fined were HR Ratings de Mexico, A.M. Best Rating Services, and Demotech, who agreed to pay much smaller fines.
All the firms acknowledged that their conduct “violated recordkeeping provisions of the federal securities laws,” the SEC said.
“In today’s actions, the Commission once again makes clear that there are tangible benefits to firms that make significant efforts to comply and otherwise cooperate with the staff’s investigations,” said Sanjay Wadhwa, the deputy director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
All six agencies have now “begun implementing improvements to their compliance policies,” the SEC said.
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Putin Blames The “Destructive Strategy of the West” for The Conflict With Ukraine
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
According to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, the Russia-Ukraine conflict is the natural outcome of the “destructive strategy of the West towards Ukraine.” Russia has repeatedly said that the “denazification” of Ukraine is a central goal of the current military operation.
The West has continually interfered in this conflict siding wholly with Ukraine and supplying a massive amount of funding, military equipment, and weapons in what is becoming well-known as its proxy war against Russia.
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Stop The Denial: Ukraine Is A Proxy War That Will Lead To Wider World War
The Russian leader is scheduled to visit Mongolia on Monday for a World War II commemoration. He is expected to attend a ceremony honoring the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol, in which the decisive victory of the Red Army and its Mongolian allies over the Imperial Japanese Army secured the Soviet Union’s eastern flank until 1945.
The visit would theoretically put the Russian leader at risk of arrest on the International Criminal Court’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the ICC’s jurisdiction. The court has insisted that Mongolia has an “obligation to cooperate.” However, Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, noting that all possible issues concerning Putin’s visit have been “worked out separately” in advance. –RT
“The hatred for everything Russian has become Ukraine’s official ideology. The use of the Russian language has been increasingly restricted, and the canonical Orthodoxy has been subjected to persecution, which now has come to the point of a direct ban,” Putin said.
“For decades, they [the West] have sought total control over Ukraine. They funded nationalist and anti-Russian organizations there; they persistently worked to convince Ukraine that Russia was its eternal enemy and the main threat to its existence,” the Russian ruler added.
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So Much For Sanctions: Russia Surpasses US For Gas Exports To EU
By Liz Heflin of Rmxnews.com
From April to June, the European Union bought more than 12.7 billion cubic meters from Russia and 12.3 billion cubic meters from the United States.
Director of the Russian Department of Economic Cooperation of the Foreign Ministry, Dmitri Birichevski, says Russia now supplies 15 percent of the total volume of natural gas imported by the European Union. This despite the EU’s REPowerEU instituted back in May 2022 to shift away from Russia and cut it off from its flow of energy profits.
Birichevski noted, in particular, the fact that France imported 4.4 billion cubic meters of liquid natural gas (LNG) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the circa 2 billion it imported in 2023.
Norway is still in first place, having supplied the EU with 23.9 billion cubic meters in Q2. Prior to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia held the top spot.
The German government maintains it no longer imports any gas from Moscow. However, many member states clearly do.
In the face of renewed demands to end Russian imports and defund Putin’s war chest, the energy policy spokesman for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) suggested that the EU “pay a fixed amount of aid and arms supplies to Ukraine for every cubic meter of imported Russian gas.“
After Hungarian FM Szijjártó’s meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, Hungary doubles down on Russian gas, saying it is not a matter of ideology but physics.
The government has repeatedly put families and households first when it comes to securing energy supply, and with the… pic.twitter.com/iBL0Rl6J3p
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 30, 2024
The matter of Russian gas imports has been an ongoing saga, with reports of shipments from Russia being essentially laundered through other countries and pipelines to avoid being stamped as “Russian.”
This new data comes in the face of no less than 14 sanctions packages, including the latest one adopted in June, which specifically prohibits the transit of Russian LNG.
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72-year old woman who was allegedly drugged by husband and raped by 72 men over a decade appears at trial
A French woman whose husband is accused of drugging her and then inviting dozens of strange men to rape her while unconscious appeared in court Monday for the first time. She waived her right to anonymity in the trial, the Daily Mail reported.
Gisele P., 72, came to the first day of the trial of Dominique P., 71, with her three children. The trial is taking place in Avignon, France.
The husband is accused of planning and executing a series of bizarre, psychotic and perverted sex crimes against his wife, specifically inviting and allowing dozens of men to come to his home near Avignon and rape his wife while she was unconscious. The crimes allegedly occurred between 2011 and 2020.
French police have documented 92 rapes by 72 men and 51 of these accused rapists are standing trial alongside the husband, who appeared as a “normal” father with a good job at the French power corporation, EDF.
Presiding judge Roger Arata has allowed the trial to be open to the public, in accordance with Gisele’s wish for “’complete publicity until the end” of the trial, her lawyer, Stephane Babonneau, told the court. She could have chosen a private trial without any publicity but “that’s what her attackers would have wanted,” said another lawyer named Antoine Camus, according to the Mail.
“For the first time, she will have to live through the rapes that she endured over 10 years” Camus said, noting that Giselle has “no recollection” of being repeatedly sexually violated, something she says she only discovered in 2020.
The couple were married in 1973 after a two year courtship. They had three children together, though Giselle has stated that her husband encouraged her to frequent swinger clubs – something she had no interest in doing. Nonetheless, Giselle described Dominique as a “great guy” who apparently annoyed a “normal sexuality,” or so she thought.
Their eldest son said he could discern no predatory, abnormal or abusive sexuality in his father, who had “always fulfilled his role.” The couple’s daughter also said her father appeared normal and was a positive influence on her life when very young.
Dominique allegedly went from normal to very abnormal in 2011 when he and Giselle were living near Paris and he is accused of orchestrating the first of many rapes.
The veneer over his life began to crumble in 2020 when he was caught by a mall security guard filming upskirt videos of women. He also filmed his wife being raped when she was unconscious and in a fetal position.
The images he caught are alleged to depict dozens of men raping his wife in their home in Mazan, a small town of about 6,000 that is 20 miles from Avignon. Dominique is accused of attracting rapists on a dark pornographic website that catered to sexual abuse fantasies.
Dominique allegedly told investigators that he used strong tranquilizers like Temesta to render his wife unconscious.
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