Dominique Strauss-Kahn , the disgraced former head of the IMF, insisted on having anal sex with a former prostitute at an orgy, despite the fact she made it clear she "didn't like sexual practices like that", a court has heard.
The year-old, and 13 co-defendants, are on trial in Lille, northern France, accused of aggravated pimping in connection with a sex ring centred on the Hotel Carlton in Lille. The ex-prostitute, known as "Mounia", said that the incident took place at a party in Paris at which four prostitutes were also present.
Did she still agree with that statement? She said she thought that there "could be no doubt that everyone there knew the girls were being paid. I never thought they were coming just for me. A psychiatric report would, he said, be immediately leaked to the press. Mr Strauss-Kahn was asked by the president of a panel of four judges if he had changed his mind about his guilt. The former French finance minister is one of 13 people accused of organising sex parties with prostitutes in six countries.
In nearly four years of allegations of sexual misconduct against Mr Strauss-Kahn since he was arrested in a New York hotel room in , this was the first time that he had answered detailed accusations in public. Mr Strauss-Kahn is accused of helping to organise sex parties with prostitutes in Brussels, Paris, Washington, Vienna and Madrid from to All charges were subsequently dropped by New York prosecutors.
He admits that he attended the orgies. One of them, a Belgian woman, named only as Jade, told magistrates during the investigation that DSK must have known the women were prostitutes.
