Strauss-Kahn arrested by French police
investigating alleged prostitution ring
Kim Willsher, Guardian, Feb 21 2012
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been formally placed under arrest by French police investigating an alleged prostitution ring. He turned himself in at 8.55am on Tuesday in Lille and is being held for questioning over allegations that he aided the procurement of prostitutes and benefited from fraud. Detectives want to ascertain whether Strauss-Kahn knew that the women he had sex with at orgies in Paris and Washington were prostitutes and if he was aware how they were paid. It is alleged the money came from the corporate funds of a major French construction company. Strauss-Kahn is expected to either be put under formal investigation or released after 48 hours. Eight people, including two Lille businessmen with links to Strauss-Kahn and a police commissioner, have already been arrested in the case, known as the Carlton affair after the luxury Lille hotel at the centre of the alleged prostitution ring. Paying for prostitutes is not illegal in France but procuring them for another and using company funds to pay for them could lead to formal charges. Strauss-Kahn insists he never knew the women were prostitutes and has denied any wrongdoing. His lawyer, Henri Leclerk, told French radio Europe 1 in December:
He could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you’re not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman.
How would you tell the difference? That’s a hard one isn’t it. You’re an old geezer in your sixties… which of the naked young babes that are prepared to have sex with you are prostitutes?
Speaking as an old geezer in my sixties, I would say, have a serious talk with her first.
lol! That was the favourite quote yesterday in BBC.They kept repeating all the time.