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April 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Some of Descoings’ belongings had been thrown out a window, the source said,
but they were subsequently recovered by investigators, undermining the
likelihood that he might have been the victim of a robbery.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had commissioned Descoings for a report on
French high schools, offered condolences to his family and friends, and paid
homage to what he described as an exceptional career, dedicated to promoting
education in France.
“Richard Descoings contributed more than anyone of his generation to
furthering the prestige of France’s higher education system,” Sarkozy
said in an emailed statement.
“As head of Sciences Po for close to 16 years he transformed this
venerable institution into an establishment of world renown,” he said.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, meanwhile, said the French Consul General
in New York had rushed to the scene and was in contact with the relevant
authorities.
The body of Richard Descoings is removed from the Michelangelo Hotel
(Reuters)
Descoings was in New York for a conference of university presidents sponsored
by the United Nations, the Institute of Political Studies said.
But he did not show up on Tuesday morning at the conference at Columbia
University and his colleagues phoned the hotel, the police source said.
Hotel staff members went to his room, but believed they heard snoring and let
the matter drop. When they returned later, they opened the door. Inside,
they found Descoings’ nude body.
While there was no sign of forced entry into his room, there were indications
alcohol had been consumed, and also indications that more than one person
may have been in the room with Descoings, the law enforcement source said.
A family staying in the next room on the hotel’s seventh floor said they heard
voices of several people talking coming from the direction of Descoings’
room late on Monday night.
Ray Ciesinski, of Bethesda, Maryland, said he and his family heard at least
two people talking in the hallway as they left Descoings’ room on Tuesday
morning between 8am and 9am.
The law enforcement source said that police still regard his death as
unexplained and that the circumstances are regarded as unusual. The body was
removed on Tuesday night and taken to the New York City Medical Examiner’s
Office.
Descoings was a graduate of France’s elite Ecole Nationale d’Administration,
or ENA, and had served as a technical adviser on education to former budget
minister Michel Charasse and to former education minister Jack Lang.
Awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest decoration, in 2005, he is
best-known for reforming Sciences Po, one of the country’s most
distinguished academic institutions, and for improving access for students
from underprivileged areas, despite fierce opposition.
More recently, he was commissioned by Sarkozy himself to look into ways of
improving the country’s high schools, and his report formed the basis for
2010 reforms designed to bring education into the 21st century and promote
equal opportunities.
Jean-Claude Casanova, President of the National Foundation of Political
Sciences, and Michel Pebereau, President of the Executive Board of Sciences
Po, both expressed their profound sadness, calling Descoings’ death an “irreparable
loss”.
“France today lost an eminent representative of the French school of
political science, a tireless player in the influence of French universities
in the world, a remarkable architect of the renewal of a leading institution
in French universities,” Foreign Minister Juppe said in a statement.
The investigation into the death of Descoings will be the second major
investigation in a year to be launched by New York police involving a major
French personality.
Last year, New York police arrested the head of the International Monetary
Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, after a chambermaid at a Times Square area
hotel accused him of sexual assault. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were
later dropped.
Strauss-Kahn, who once was a potential candidate for the French presidency, is
now under investigation by French authorities for his alleged involvement
with a prostitution ring in the northern French city of Lille.
Strauss-Kahn was once a professor at the “Sciences Po” institute
which Descoings headed.
Source: agencies
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