AVIGNON, France — A French pensioner went on trial on Monday for allowing scores of strangers to rape his wife after he drugged her in a case that has horrified the West European country.

Fifty men, who he recruited online, are also being tried in the southeastern city of Avignon alongside the main suspect, a 71-year-old former employee at France's power utility company EDF.

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