– King of the party? –
The charge of “aggravated pimping in an organised group” has been levelled against Strauss-Kahn and these friends, two businessmen and an ex-police commissioner.
Prostitution is legal in France but procuring – the legal term for pimping which includes encouraging, benefiting from or organising prostitution – is a crime.
Judicial sources say Strauss-Kahn was “the king of the party” and that the orgies were organised around his schedule, with his mere presence giving rise to prostitution.
“In these circumstances one isn’t always clothed, and I challenge you to tell the difference between a prostitute naked and any other woman naked,” Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer Henri Leclerc, 84, said in 2011.
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