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March 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Hollande remains the favourite in the opinion polls to beat Sarkozy in the
election’s May 6 second-round run-off, but the gap between the two has
narrowed in recent days.
On Monday, Strauss-Kahn was called in by investigating magistrates in the
northern French city of Lille to be charged two days earlier than expected.
“He firmly declares that he is not guilty of these acts and never had the
least inkling that the women he met could have been prostitutes,” said
Richard Malka, one of Strauss-Kahn’s counsel.
“It goes without saying that we will ask for the cancellation of this
decision,” said another of his lawyers, Henri Leclerc.
In a statement, prosecutors said: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed
under judicial control and was forbidden from contacting defendants, civil
plaintiffs, witnesses and the press regarding the procedures.”
Strauss-Kahn “has never broken the law,” Malka insisted. “Through
this prosecution they are trying to create a new crime punishing clients of
prostitution where the law does not provide for this.”
He also suggested that Strauss-Kahn was being pursued because of his high
profile and links to the Socialist Party in the midst of a heated campaign.
“As a result of behaviour that is purely his own business, Mr
Strauss-Kahn has found himself – largely because of his fame – thrown to the
wolves, by coincidence less than a month before a major election,”
Malka said.
Strauss-Kahn’s name came up as police were investigating a pimping operation
that saw sex workers from brothels over the Belgian border being brought to
France for orgies in high-class hotels in Lille and Paris.
Strauss-Kahn admits that he took part in some of these parties, one of which
was said to involve women being flown to Washington to entertain him while
he was still managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
He has denied knowing the escorts were paid.
Using prostitutes is not illegal in France, but prosecutors are seeking proof
that Strauss-Kahn was aware the parties were arranged by an organised
pimping ring and paid for by other guests misusing company funds.
Several Lille-based businessmen and policemen have been accused of taking part
in the ring. Strauss-Kahn told police he did not suspect the women were
prostitutes because he was introduced to them by senior police officers.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers will also be in court on Wednesday in New York for the
first hearing in a civil case brought against him by Nafissatou Diallo, a
hotel maid who alleges he sexually assaulted her.
Judge Douglas McKeon will be asked to rule on a motion by Strauss-Kahn’s
lawyers urging him to dismiss the case on the grounds that, at the time of
the alleged attack in May last year, their client had diplomatic immunity.
These two cases are the most serious threats facing Strauss-Kahn after the
dismissal of two earlier criminal investigations that were brought against
him in the United States and in France after his spectacular fall from grace.
First, criminal charges relating to 32-year-old Diallo’s complaint that
Strauss-Kahn attacked her in his suite in a New York Sofitel hotel on May 15
were dropped after prosecutors came to doubt the reliability of her
testimony.
After that case fell apart, Strauss-Kahn, who had resigned from his post at
the IMF in Washington, returned to France, only to face an accusation from
32-year-old author Tristane Banon that he had tried to rape her in 2002.
French investigating magistrates questioned Strauss-Kahn and his accuser and
concluded that, while there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault,
the alleged attack had occurred too long ago to be prosecuted.
Strauss-Kahn admits having a “sexual encounter” with Diallo during
the nine minutes she spent in his suite, and told French police that he had
tried to kiss Banon, but strenuously denies he used violence in either case.
Source: AFP
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