DSK faces gang rape charge threat
Investigating judges say former IMF managing director and others should be tried for attacking prostitute
JUDGES investigating an alleged prostitution ring have have said former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn should face rape charges over his involvement in the so-called Lille Carlton affair.
The investigators said Strauss-Kahn and other associates should face gang rape charges after a Belgian prostitute claimed he and three other men forced her to have sex.
The incident is supposed to have taken place on a trip to Washington in December 2010. A second prostitute is backing up the accuser’s claims.
The judges’ request is being examined by public prosecutors who are looking into an alleged sex ring run from the Lille Carlton hotel.
Strauss-Kahn already faces charges of “aggravated procuring in an organised gang”; though he contests the claim, saying he did not know the women he met were prostitutes.
In relation to the new accusations he has denied having committed any violent act and has said they reflect a “lynch mob” mentality.
The news comes as an American judge threw out Strauss-Kahn’s claim for diplomatic immunity in a civil case over rape allegations by a hotel maid that caused his fall from grace as a presidential contender last year.
