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Prosecutor Requests DSK Charges Be Dismissed

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Tue Feb 17, 2015 at 10:56:32 AM EST
Tags: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (all tags)
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The prosecutor in the trial of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has asked that the charges of aggravated procurement be dismissed for lack of evidence. The women involved have dismissed their claims for damages against him.

Lille Prosecutor Frederic Fevre told the judges:

"Did Dominique Strauss-Kahn pay prostitutes? The answer is no. Did he p*mp prostitutes for others? The answer is no,"

The prosecutor originally recommended against the charges, but the investigating magistrate judges overruled him, saying that Strauss-Kahn was a key planner of the parties and knew that the women who attended them were prostitutes. But the evidence at trial failed to show DSK knew they were prostitutes and he testified and denied knowing they were paid. [More...]

"Everyone is free to live out their sexuality how they wish," Fevre said. "Neither the prosecutor nor the judge can set himself up as the guardian of moral order."

.... Fevre said their actions were those of "a group of friends who were satisfying their egos, ambitions and simply their sexual desires."

The prosecutor said he was disturbed by the disparate way DSK's trial was conducted. Only DSK's sexual practices were delved into by the prostitutes who testified, not those of the others on trial.

The judges do not have to accept the prosecutor's motion to acquit.

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