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A Polish electrician has gone on trial accused of drugging his girlfriend 103 times with horse tranquilliser and sleeping pills and filming the attacks before sharing more than 160 videos online of the sick abuse.
The alleged rapist Gzregorz C., 39, poses in undated photo. The prosecution accuses the Polish national of a total of 103 counts. Note: Private photo. (Harrisons)
The court heard the woman was unaware of what he was allegedly doing and made frequent visits to doctors trying to diagnose her unexplained tiredness and pain, as the trial of 39-year-old Gzregorz C. began at Hanover Regional Court in Hanover, Lower Saxony, northern Germany, yesterday (10th September).
Picture shows the city of Hanover, Germany, undated. Note: Image is a screenshot from video. (Harrisons)
It is the third disturbing case to emerge bearing striking parallels with that of Gisele Pelicot, whose husband Dominique drugged her for years and invited dozens of strangers to rape her while she was unconscious, before a court convicted him and 50 other men in 2024.
More recently, police in Austria began investigating the death of 39-year-old Daniela Aichinger after her husband was accused of allowing other men to sexually abuse her while she was incapacitated, with investigators examining whether further attackers may have been involved.
Now prosecutors in Germany allege Polish electrician Gzregorz C. repeatedly drugged and raped his girlfriend, filmed the attacks and shared the footage online.
Prosecutors allege he repeatedly drugged his 33-year-old partner until she was deeply unconscious and even checked he could see the white’s of her eyes before sexually assaulting and humiliating her over a period of several years.
The alleged attacks are said to have begun after the couple moved in together in the Hanover region in November 2021, about a year after starting their relationship.
According to Bild, investigators believe C. used sleeping tablets prescribed to him as well as the anaesthetic ketamine to render his girlfriend unconscious.
He allegedly checked her eyes to make sure she was unaware of what was happening before carrying out the attacks.
Prosecutors say the electrician recorded more than 160 videos on his mobile phone and shared them in private chat groups, including on Telegram, and on pornographic websites.
Using the account name “Masseratti22”, he allegedly described his unconscious partner using degrading sexual terms and sometimes responded to requests from people watching the material.
He is also accused of offering her for sex.
The 33-year-old is said to have known nothing about the alleged abuse but increasingly suffered unexplained tiredness, periods of feeling unusually absent and physical complaints.
She reportedly visited doctors in an attempt to discover what was causing her symptoms without knowing what prosecutors now allege was happening to her.
The investigation began after police in Hamburg and other German state criminal investigation offices became aware of a website allegedly being used to share large numbers of rape videos involving drugged women.
Investigators are said to have traced users through accounts and IP addresses as they investigated an internationally connected abuse network.
Their inquiries eventually led to C., who allegedly appeared himself in one of the abuse videos.
The electrician was arrested in spring 2026 and has been held in custody since March.
His former girlfriend later recognised herself in the videos, according to Bild.
Prosecutors spent around 45 minutes reading out the individual allegations when the trial opened.
C. is accused of 103 offences, which would amount to an alleged assault roughly every two weeks over the period covered by the charges.
There is also reportedly suspicion that he may previously have secretly abused and filmed his former wife, who lives in Poland.
His lawyer Marcin Raminski told Bild: “My client is exercising his right to remain silent.”
The former girlfriend is expected to give evidence at the trial on 21st September.
C. faces several years in prison if convicted.
(Harrisons)
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