Attorneys five applicants announced that they were withdrawing civil actions against the former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a criminal trial on pimping, pending before a court in Lille, in northern France.
The withdrawal of lawsuits announced on the day before the prosecutor in the case of the former head of the International Monetary Fund.
The Association “Teams action against stręczycielstwu” (fr. Teams of contre le d’action proxenetisme – EACP) withdraw his civil action – said Monday before the court attorney David Lepidi. The withdrawal lawsuit also said the lawyer Gilles Maton, the defending four former prostitutes – AFP agency said.
As the Associated Press writes, lawyers explained the reasons that there is insufficient evidence to prove that the former head of the International Monetary Fund broke right.
Meanwhile, the sixth reason, the association to fight prostitution called Mouvement du Nid, maintains its allegations against Strauss-Kahn; not specified, however, for more details.
Last week, the former head of the IMF denied before the court committing any offenses in connection with charges of pimping. He stressed that he did not know that in the events organized in, inter alia, in luxury hotels in Paris and Washington were involved prostitutes.
Strauss-Kahn alleged that he was the main beneficiary and instigator of “libertine evenings”. Former socialist minister, who was known in France as the favorite in the presidential election in 2012., Faces up to ten years in prison and punishment of 1.5 million.
The 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn sits in the dock of 13 persons, including a hotel, a policeman, a lawyer, businessmen, and even a pimp.
The former head of the IMF’s defenders argue that he did not know that the women who met at parties organized by the grid were prostitutes. They also say that Strauss-Kahn was the main organizer of the event. Grid pimps was based in the Carlton Hotel in Lille, where it took the name of the affair.
The judges investigators determined that Strauss-Kahn could not know that the women who were presented to him at parties, prostitutes are salaried and also that these meetings are organized specially for him. According to them, it was the Frenchman was the “king of the party”; It was also made available on the approval of their rented apartment.
In 2011. Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on charges of sexual assault on the hotel maid. As a result of the scandal he lost the post of head of the IMF, the opportunity to apply for the presidency of France and its position as one of the most influential people in the world. At the end of 2012. Entered into a settlement with the maid, by which it paid 1.5 million dollars in damages.
Five applicants withdrew its lawsuit against Strauss-Kahn – Republic
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