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Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:09:57 AM
France: Strauss-Kahn to Be Questioned
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .. Published: February 21, 2012
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, will be questioned Tuesday by French police officers investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring in France and Belgium. The police said they have questioned prostitutes who said they had sex with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in 2010 and 2011 at a luxury hotel in Paris, a restaurant in the French capital and in Washington, where Mr. Strauss-Kahn lived while he was head of the I.M.F.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/world/europe/france-strauss-kahn-to-be-questioned.html
no more there, though it does have links .. i saw this one first,
The Telegraph, with conservative readership in the UK ..
Dominique Strauss-Kahn questioned as 'pimp' suspect
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been taken in for questioning as a suspect in a corruption probe
into alleged orgies with prostitutes in Paris and Washington paid for by two businessmen.
Dominique Strauss-Khan's wife has decamped to Morocco, and demonstrators and
the media follow his every move Photo: GETTY
By Henry Samuel, Paris .. 7:00AM GMT 21 Feb 2012
The former International Monetary Fund chief arrived at a police station in Lille, northern France, this morning to testify as a witness in the case but was immediately taken into custody for interrogation with a view to possible charges, the prosecutor said.
The 62-year-old ex-Socialist minister was seen as the frontrunner to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France until his arrest last May on rape charges on a New York maid – later dropped.
The timing of the arrest is embarrassing for the Socialist party, whose presidential candidate François Hollande is favourite to win the race. The far-Right National Front's former chief, Jean-Marie Le Pen said it would be "astonishing" if the Socialist party were unaware of Mr Strauss-Kahn's sexual practices.
The 62-year-old's lawyers have said he is keen to be questioned to clear his name in the affair.
But he has been detained on suspicion of "complicity in pimping" and "misuse of company funds" and could thus face charges and see his detention stretch from the normal 48 hours to 96 hours.
After that, he could be remanded in custody pending an eventual trial, or released on bail.
The probe is focused on a prostitution ring that allegedly supplied clients of Lille's luxury Carlton hotel.
Using prostitutes is not illegal in France. But potential charges hang on whether investigating magistrates are convinced Mr Strauss-Kahn knew that the women he had sex with in restaurants, hotels and swingers' clubs in Paris, Washington and several European capitals were prostitutes paid for using company funds.
Eight people, including two Lille businessmen close to Mr Strauss-Kahn and a local police commissioner, have been placed under investigation, and construction firm Eiffage fired an executive suspected of using company funds to hire escorts.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer has argued his client could have been “totally unaware” that the women he met in swinger sessions were prostitutes as “they were all naked at the time”.
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s career has been in tatters since his arrest on May 14 last year on charges of raping maid Nafissato Diallo in Manhattan’s Sofitel hotel.
Charges were dropped after prosecutors began to doubt Miss Diallo's credibility as a witness, but Mr Strauss-Kahn returned to France to fresh sex scandals.
First, 32-year-old French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her in 2003. Prosecutors decided that there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, but ruled that the statute of limitations had passed.
Then, Mr Strauss-Kahn's name was linked to the separate Carlton case as part of a probe into a ring linked to notorious Belgian pimp Dominique Alderweireld, nicknamed "Dodo la Saumure".
The involvement of businessmen and a police officer raised suspicions that they intended to win favours with a presidential contender, but they are reported to have denied this during questioning.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has denied any wrongdoing.
Several girls allegedly belonging to this network had sex with Mr Strauss-Kahn, even travelling to Washington to do so.
Two girls said together they were paid 1,600 euros (£1,330) in cash per session by two men under investigation in the Carlton Affair but only one remembers payment being mentioned during these.
Mr Strauss-Kahn admits taking part in orgies arranged by “friends” as part of his “uninhibited sex life”, but that “he never paid a centime” and never asked if his partners were being paid.
“I have a horror of prostitutes and pimping," he is quoted as saying.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/9094886/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-questioned-as-pimp-suspect.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .. Published: February 21, 2012
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, will be questioned Tuesday by French police officers investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring in France and Belgium. The police said they have questioned prostitutes who said they had sex with Mr. Strauss-Kahn in 2010 and 2011 at a luxury hotel in Paris, a restaurant in the French capital and in Washington, where Mr. Strauss-Kahn lived while he was head of the I.M.F.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/world/europe/france-strauss-kahn-to-be-questioned.html
no more there, though it does have links .. i saw this one first,
The Telegraph, with conservative readership in the UK ..
Dominique Strauss-Kahn questioned as 'pimp' suspect
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been taken in for questioning as a suspect in a corruption probe
into alleged orgies with prostitutes in Paris and Washington paid for by two businessmen.
Dominique Strauss-Khan's wife has decamped to Morocco, and demonstrators and
the media follow his every move Photo: GETTY
By Henry Samuel, Paris .. 7:00AM GMT 21 Feb 2012
The former International Monetary Fund chief arrived at a police station in Lille, northern France, this morning to testify as a witness in the case but was immediately taken into custody for interrogation with a view to possible charges, the prosecutor said.
The 62-year-old ex-Socialist minister was seen as the frontrunner to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France until his arrest last May on rape charges on a New York maid – later dropped.
The timing of the arrest is embarrassing for the Socialist party, whose presidential candidate François Hollande is favourite to win the race. The far-Right National Front's former chief, Jean-Marie Le Pen said it would be "astonishing" if the Socialist party were unaware of Mr Strauss-Kahn's sexual practices.
The 62-year-old's lawyers have said he is keen to be questioned to clear his name in the affair.
But he has been detained on suspicion of "complicity in pimping" and "misuse of company funds" and could thus face charges and see his detention stretch from the normal 48 hours to 96 hours.
After that, he could be remanded in custody pending an eventual trial, or released on bail.
The probe is focused on a prostitution ring that allegedly supplied clients of Lille's luxury Carlton hotel.
Using prostitutes is not illegal in France. But potential charges hang on whether investigating magistrates are convinced Mr Strauss-Kahn knew that the women he had sex with in restaurants, hotels and swingers' clubs in Paris, Washington and several European capitals were prostitutes paid for using company funds.
Eight people, including two Lille businessmen close to Mr Strauss-Kahn and a local police commissioner, have been placed under investigation, and construction firm Eiffage fired an executive suspected of using company funds to hire escorts.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer has argued his client could have been “totally unaware” that the women he met in swinger sessions were prostitutes as “they were all naked at the time”.
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s career has been in tatters since his arrest on May 14 last year on charges of raping maid Nafissato Diallo in Manhattan’s Sofitel hotel.
Charges were dropped after prosecutors began to doubt Miss Diallo's credibility as a witness, but Mr Strauss-Kahn returned to France to fresh sex scandals.
First, 32-year-old French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her in 2003. Prosecutors decided that there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, but ruled that the statute of limitations had passed.
Then, Mr Strauss-Kahn's name was linked to the separate Carlton case as part of a probe into a ring linked to notorious Belgian pimp Dominique Alderweireld, nicknamed "Dodo la Saumure".
The involvement of businessmen and a police officer raised suspicions that they intended to win favours with a presidential contender, but they are reported to have denied this during questioning.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has denied any wrongdoing.
Several girls allegedly belonging to this network had sex with Mr Strauss-Kahn, even travelling to Washington to do so.
Two girls said together they were paid 1,600 euros (£1,330) in cash per session by two men under investigation in the Carlton Affair but only one remembers payment being mentioned during these.
Mr Strauss-Kahn admits taking part in orgies arranged by “friends” as part of his “uninhibited sex life”, but that “he never paid a centime” and never asked if his partners were being paid.
“I have a horror of prostitutes and pimping," he is quoted as saying.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/9094886/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-questioned-as-pimp-suspect.html
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