An Austrian woman aged 39 was killed in her own bed after being raped by her husband and an accomplice. The case occurred in Austria and is now being investigated as part of a serial rape network.
The victim's husband is one of the main suspects of the crime, having acted together with another man. Authorities are investigating whether there are other victims and whether this abuse network may be larger than initially known.
The case is being compared to that of Gisèle Pelicot, a court case that became public in France and that involved systematic rapes of a woman by multiple men, also with the complicity of the husband.
The comparison with the Pelicot case arises in the context of a broader debate about sexual violence, marital complicity and the way these crimes are investigated and tried in Europe.
