Dance teacher and self-taught hypnotherapist Cyril Zattara is on trial in southern France charged with raping 14 women over a decade and allegedly secretly filming around 20 other women. He has been held in detention awaiting trial since 2021 and has admitted 10 rape charges. A police investigation found he allegedly slipped sleeping pills into women’s drinks before sexually assaulting them, often targeting women he was friends with or in intimate relationships with. One complainant said she drank wine he offered, later woke with fragmentary memories of rape and vomiting, and investigators reported his DNA under her fingernails and on her underwear and toxicology results showing powerful sleep-inducing drugs in her system.