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00:00Another series of horrific rapes have shocked France.
00:04When confronted by the police, this man confessed to having raped 15 women after drugging his victims.
00:10He's a 34-year-old landscaper from the south of France with no previous criminal record.
00:15According to the prosecutor, he confessed to his crimes.
00:20He admitted filming the events and acting under the influence of cocaine.
00:25The story begins last January in this gendarmerie in Leroux in southern France.
00:31When two women turned up to file a full report,
00:34they claimed to have been raped by their landscaper at their home in Sausson,
00:38a small town home to only a few thousand residents.
00:42The suspect's neighbors are in shock and disbelief. Some even witnessed his arrest.
00:46I thought he was so nice we should invite him for dinner.
00:50And his wife was also very nice.
00:53I'm completely shocked and horrified that this sort of thing could happen in our little village.
00:57I'm the mother of a little girl.
00:58I know this happened to minors and I'm completely shocked by it.
01:03When he came to work in gardens of clients,
01:05he would take advantage of coffee breaks to give them Xanax, a strong antidepressant.
01:12They are sedatives. To summarize it simply,
01:15they're central nervous system depressants that will slow everything down,
01:18lower your guard, cause a drop in vigilance and then provoke a state of amnesia
01:22that is particularly wanted by predators.
01:28The suspect stated that the victims were aged between 7 and 80 years old.
01:33He has been imprisoned, but investigators are continuing their inquiries.
01:37They want to identify victims who may have been drugged
01:40but unaware that they were assaulted or raped.