Dominique Strauss-Kahn linked to French prostitution scandal

Source: The Guardian

He is keeping a low profile in Paris, has grown a white beard, and polls show he is the least popular politician in France.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, forced to quit as head of the IMF and shelve aspirations to become the next French president, had hoped to find solace in France after criminal charges were dropped against him in New York over the alleged attempted rape of a hotel cleaner. But he is dominating the front pages again after his name was linked to a high-profile investigation into an alleged prostitution ring at a luxury hotel in Lille.

The Hotel Carlton affair centres on allegations of pimping at top hotels in the northern French city, where women from France and massage parlours in Belgium were allegedly supplied for hotel customers and local officials. Eight people are under formal investigation, including a senior police officer, a local barrister and businessmen. Five have been imprisoned as the inquiry continues.

The investigation raises questions about the links between police and business figures and the underworld of sex work in France and Belgium. Prostitution involving people over the age of 18 is not illegal in France but pimping and living off the benefits of it is.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/dominique-strauss-kahn-prostitution-scandal

...to run the IMF.

They've been screwing people for years...

.......some of these knucklehead protectors will have some to eat.

General rule.....don't defend the pervert.

Sounds like the U.S. political system.

Somebody's still trying to frame that poor progressive gentleman.

yea. france. you make me proud.

How progressive.

...she describes feeling relief and vindication.

"Yes, I was happy when he was arrested. It was as if eight and a half years of my life had been on hold, in brackets, waiting for this moment. I was never good. I had calm moments, I had happy moments, but what happened was always, always there in my head.

"I don't believe in God, but I believe in destiny and natural justice and I believe when you have done so much bad you have to pay for it some day, and you don't pay for it by becoming president of the republic.

"For eight and a half years I had been treated as a pathological liar as someone who didn't know reality from fiction, as someone who didn't matter, who could be forgotten and here HE was arrested. It was unimaginable. I was working out how long it would take his communications and PR team to get over there, sort things out and get him out. Thankfully, America is not like France and he was treated like anyone else.

"If it had happened in France, the policeman arresting him would have been immediately demoted, there wouldn't have been one single line in the press and after three days we would have heard that the police had been ordered to apologise to him for bothering him. It would have been the world upside down.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8871786/Tristane-Banon-why-I-still-cant-bear-to-say-Dominique-Strauss-Kahns-name.html

Thankfully, America is not like France and he was treated like anyone else.

until his pr and lawyers got here, anyway.

good for this woman.