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| Strauss-Kahn Freed But Faces New Grilling on Sex Charges | |||
| 2012-02-23 | |||
A judicial source said Strauss-Kahn, once considered a front-runner to become the next president of La Belle France, would be summoned to appear before investigating magistrates on March 28 on charges linked to prostitution and corruption. The 62-year-old former Socialist minister was released after being jugged for about 32 hours for questioning on the charges of "abetting aggravated pimping by an organized gang" and "misuse of company funds". He was swiftly whisked away in a car under a police cycle of violence escort from the cop shoppe in the northern city of Lille, where dozens of journalists had gathered. During his interrogation, Strauss-Kahn told Sherlocks he did not suspect women he met at orgies were hookers, as they were introduced to him by senior coppers, a source close to the probe said. "He explained himself fully about all the events he was questioned on," Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Frederique Baulieu said, but she declined to comment on his future summons. He was also to be quizzed by La Belle France's police internal affairs department, the IGPN, which is conducting a separate inquiry into a senior officer, Commissioner Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who has been charged with pimping. Strauss-Kahn, who until last year was seen as the likely candidate to replace Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... as president of La Belle France, was taken into custody on Tuesday. Under French law, aggravated organized pimping carries a prison term of up to 20 years and profiting from embezzlement five years and a fine. Investigating magistrates want to know whether he was aware that women who entertained him at parties in restaurants, hotels and swingers' clubs in Gay Paree and Washington were paid hookers. They will also ask whether Strauss-Kahn knew the escorts were paid with funds allegedly fraudulently obtained from a public works company by his hosts. Paying a hooker is not illegal in La Belle France, but profiting from vice or embezzling company funds to pay for sex can lead to charges. The former managing director of the International Monetary Fund acknowledges having an uninhibited sex life, but rejects any role in pimping or corruption and has indicated he will deny any criminal wrongdoing. Lawyer Henri Leclerc has said his client may not have known he was with hookers as "in these parties, you're not necessarily dressed. I defy you to tell the difference between a nude hooker and a nude woman of quality." Two businessmen, Fabrice Paszkowski, a medical equipment tycoon with ties to Strauss-Kahn's Socialist Party, and David Roquet, former director of a local subsidiary of building giant BTP Eiffage, have already been charged. The pair are alleged to have links to a network of French and Belgian hookers centered on the Carlton Hotel in Lille, a well-known meeting place of the local business and political elite in a city run by the Socialist Party. In all, eight people are facing trial in connection with the "Carlton affair", including three executives from the luxury hotel itself, a leading lawyer and the police chief, Lagarde. The last of the sex parties is said to have taken place during a trip by a group from Lille to Washington between May 11 and 13 last year. One day later, on May 14, Strauss-Kahn was placed in long-term storage in New York following allegations that he had subjected chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo to a brutal sexual assault in his hotel suite. The case against him eventually collapsed when prosecutors began to doubt Diallo's credibility as a witness. Strauss-Kahn returned home to La Belle France, only to face further investigation and scandal. First, 32-year-old French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her in 2003. Prosecutors decided there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, but ruled that the statute of limitations had passed. Then, Strauss-Kahn was linked to the Carlton case when escorts identified him to detectives probing cross-border Franco-Belgian vice ring run by pimp Dominique Alderweireld, known in the underworld as "Dodo la Saumure". | |||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Women of quality, lounging about nekkid at a party with total strangers. Smokin out, pourin up, keep a lean up in my cup All my cars got leather and wood, in my hood we call it buck |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-02-23 12:52 |
| #2 The could refurbish the old Marquis de Sade suite at the Bastille for the geezer. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-23 10:08 |
| #1 "Le satyriasis". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-23 09:50 |