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Old 17-10-11, 05:48 PM
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L’affaire de proxénétisme du Carlton de Lille éclabousse de plus en plus de monde. Après la mise en examen d’une étoile montante du barreau lillois, d’un chef d’entreprise du bâtiment, et de dirigeants d’hôtels de luxe, les regards se tournent vers des policiers. Cinq d’entre eux seraient mis en cause, dont deux retraités.

Enfin, c’est le nom de Dominique Strauss-Kahn qui été cité dans la presse. Aussitôt, "DSK" a demandé à "être entendu le plus rapidement possible" par les juges, espérant qu’il "soit mis un terme aux insinuations et extrapolations hasardeuses et encore une fois malveillantes", a-t-il écrit, dimanche 16 octobre, à l’AFP. L’ex-directeur du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) est cité dans le dossier par une prostituée qui affirme l’avoir rencontré lors d’une partie fine à Paris, dans un duplex non loin des grands magasins du boulevard Haussmann.

Si l’audition de M. Strauss-Kahn est envisagée en tant que témoin –"comme des tas d’autres personnes", indique une source proche du dossier–, une convocation n’est pas prévue "dans un proche avenir". D’ailleurs, ces faits ne constitueraient pas une infraction.

Si fracassants soient-ils, les derniers rebondissements de cette affaire pourraient n’être qu’un des volets d’une enquête menée depuis huit mois par les juges Stéphanie Ausbart et Mathieu Vignau. Le dossier démarre fin mars, lorsqu’une information judiciaire est ouverte contre X pour "association de malfaiteurs" et "blanchiment" pour des faits commis entre 2008 et 2011. La cellule des mœurs de la police judiciaire de Lille est mise à contribution.

SUR ÉCOUTES

Le petit groupe d’enquêteurs place quelques personnes sur écoutes, dont René Kojfer, une figure de la nuit lilloise, connue pour son entregent, son carnet d’adresses et ses amitiés policières. Début octobre, l’enquête s’accélère brusquement avec l’arrestation en Belgique de Dominique Alderweireld, alias "Dodo la Saumure" ainsi que de Béatrice, sa compagne. A Tournai, à vingt minutes de Lille de l’autre côté de la frontière, Dodo, gérant de bars à hôtesse et de salons de massage, est bien connu.

Or, il s’avère que René Kojfer, le chargé des relations publiques de l’hôtel des Tours et du Carlton de Lille – deux établissements dirigés par Francis Henrion, mis en examen dans le dossier – est en lien régulier avec lui. René commandait-il des filles à Dodo pour ses clients lillois ? Le parquet de Lille se refuse à tout commentaire. Mais, début octobre, les juges français ont demandé à étendre leur enquête et ont obtenu un réquisitoire supplétif pour "proxénétisme aggravé commis en bande organisée".

Peu de temps après, ils ont procédé aux premières arrestations. Celles-ci ont d’abord visé le milieu de l’hôtellerie, avec les interpellations de Francis Henrion, Hervé Franchois, le propriétaire des murs, et René Kojfer. Autre mis en examen : Me Emmanuel Riglaire. Cet avocat lillois pourrait avoir présenté une ancienne cliente dans le besoin à René Kojfer, qui lui aurait proposé de se prostituer.

Quant à David Roquet, l’entrepreneur du bâtiment mis en examen, il est cité par l’une des prostituées comme la personne qui l’aurait accompagnée lors de la soirée parisienne, avant de la raccompagner à Lille.

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This is stupid, any posh hotel manager can tell his guests how to get hold of some hookers, calling it proxenétisme en bande organisée is a waste of police time.
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Furthermore, my impression was that prostitution is legal in France as long as you're not carrying it out from a brothel.
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I think pimping is illegal whereas prostitution isn't.
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But acting as a contact between an independent prostitute and a client isn't 'pimping' in the traditionally understood sense of the term.
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I suspect that there was probably an arrangement by which the hotel got a cut for recommending Dodo's girls and the cops are stretching a point.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn linked to French prostitution scandal | World news | The Guardian

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He is keeping a low profile in Paris, has grown a white beard, and polls show he is the least popular politician in France.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, forced to quit as head of the IMF and shelve aspirations to become the next French president, had hoped to find solace in France after criminal charges were dropped against him in New York over the alleged attempted rape of a hotel cleaner. But he is dominating the front pages again after his name was linked to a high-profile investigation into an alleged prostitution ring at a luxury hotel in Lille.

The Hotel Carlton affair centres on allegations of pimping at top hotels in the northern French city, where women from France and massage parlours in Belgium were allegedly supplied for hotel customers and local officials. Eight people are under formal investigation, including a senior police officer, a local barrister and businessmen. Five have been imprisoned as the inquiry continues.

The investigation raises questions about the links between police and business figures and the underworld of sex work in France and Belgium. Prostitution involving people over the age of 18 is not illegal in France but pimping and living off the benefits of it is.

The affair took a new turn after Strauss-Kahn's name came up in statements made to investigators, according to a series of leaked transcripts published in the French media in recent weeks.

Businessmen were alleged to have paid women to travel to Paris and the US to take part in "soirées" with Strauss-Kahn at his own request, including when he was head of the IMF and tipped to become the next French president. Le Monde reported that one senior French police officer had travelled twice to Washington DC last year with businessmen, including the head of a Lille-based construction firm, to accompany a group of women who worked in massage parlours in Belgium to see Strauss-Kahn. The former head of the IMF was said to have received three visits from the group in Washington. The last visit ended on 13 May, the day before he was arrested over the attempted rape of a hotel maid in New York.

The senior Lille police officer and two businessmen deny involvement in prostitution.

The first evening organised for Strauss-Kahn was said to have taken place at a luxury Paris hotel in 2009. One sex worker, whose testimony was published by the weekly Le Point, described being accompanied by businessmen on the train from Lille to Paris to meet Strauss-Kahn, who was wearing a bathrobe, and others in a duplex hotel apartment with a pool. She said she was paid €900 (£770) by a businessman on the way back to Lille that night. Other alleged encounters took place in 2010.

A Belgian sex worker in her 30s, known as Jade, told the French newspaper, Nord Eclair, she was taken to Washington for an encounter with Strauss-Kahn in a hotel in January 2010 and paid by businessmen on her return to France. She said Strauss-Kahn showed her around the IMF building and posed for a photograph with her in his office the next day.

But the saga took another twist this week when French media, including Liberation and Le Point, published text messages allegedly sent by Strauss-Kahn to a businessman in the case, which are being investigated by police. In one message, Strauss-Kahn, then head of the IMF, asked if the man wanted to accompany him to a "magnificent" swingers club in Madrid, suggesting he bring "material" – thought to mean women. In another, he said he was taking a girl, "une petite", to clubs in Vienna and would the man like to come with a "demoiselle", or "Miss". A few days later he asked if the "suite with pool" had been booked. The text messages do not explicitly refer to prostitution.

Strauss-Kahn issued a statement through his lawyers on Friday demanding to be interviewed by investigative judges in the case as soon as possible, and denouncing a "media lynching". The statement said Strauss-Kahn was ready to "explain himself" not before the tribunal of public opinion but "in front of those running the judicial inquiry". Last month, his lawyers urged judges to interview him so he could answer what he deemed "hasty and malevolent" accusations.

Strauss-Kahn's lawyer, Henri Leclerc, told the Guardian he had no comment to make on the case. He said his client had not yet been interviewed by investigators.

If Strauss-Kahn had consenting, paid-for encounters with sex workers aged over 18, it would not be a crime in France. But the publication this week of text messages to one businessman mentioning meetings with other top Socialists, raised questions about whether the men could expect political access or favours in exchange for providing what one had termed "girlfriends, meaning prostitutes" for him.

One businessman in the case said he paid for flights and costs. He is believed to have spent thousands of euros of company money on organising soirées for Strauss-Kahn, putting receipts marked with the initials DSK through his expense accounts. He told investigators Strauss-Kahn had not paid for anything.

The French media questioned Strauss-Kahn's behaviour during a period in which he was tipped to become the next president of France. "The net is tightening around DSK," said the daily Le Parisien on Friday.
There's been a joke doing the rounds lately about how, when in Nice for the G20, Berlusconi stayed at the Carlton there. "Clearly been following the local news etc."
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"Veux-tu (peux-tu) venir découvrir une magnifique boîte coquine à Madrid avec moi (et du matériel) ?" Un sketch du SAV sur Canal Plus ? Vous n'y êtes pas. Il s'agit d'un SMS envoyé par Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ancien patron du FMI et ex-futur candidat à la primaire socialiste, à un ami.

Le téléphone portable de l'homme d'affaires Fabrice Pazskowski, entrepreneur lensois, mis en examen et écroué dans l'affaire de proxénétisme dite "du Carlton", commence à livrer ses secrets. Les enquêteurs n'ont pas encore réussi à faire parler la carte SIM, mais dans son édition de jeudi, Libération révèle déjà quelques savoureux messages entre les deux hommes. "Il est le plus souvent question de soirées spéciales", résume le quotidien. Ne figurent que les SMS de DSK, le chef d'entreprise ayant "effacé de son mobile tous les messages qu'il avait adressés à DSK", précise Le Point.

Florilège :

* Mai 2009 : "J'emmène une petite faire les boîtes de Vienne (en Autriche) le jeudi 14 mai. Ça te dit de venir avec une demoiselle ?"

* 4 juillet : les deux hommes semblent projeter un autre rendez-vous, en Espagne cette fois : "Veux-tu (peux-tu) venir découvrir une magnifique boîte coquine à Madrid avec moi (et du matériel) ?", demande DSK.

* Fin juillet : Les deux hommes projettent de se retrouver en Belgique : "OK. Bien reçu. Pour Gand, il faut que tu me dises vite de quoi il s’agit. C'est une boîte ou une soirée privée ?"

* 13 janvier 2010 : "Je serai à DC (Washington) du jeudi 20 à 15 heures au mercredi 27, 22 heures. Ça serait chouette que tu viennes. Mais si tu peux pas-veux pas, il faut juste que tu le dises à temps."

Le téléphone en question a été oublié à une partie fine tarifée, en février, par Fabrice Pazskowski. Dominique Strauss-Kahn l'aurait récupéré avant de le rendre à son propriétaire le 13 mai, à l'occasion d'un autre rendez-vous avec des prostituées, cette fois-ci aux Etats-Unis, rapporte Le Point.

Ecroué depuis le 21 octobre et mis en examen pour "proxénétisme aggravé en bande organisée, association de malfaiteurs, escroquerie et abus de biens sociaux", Fabrice Pazskowski est soupçonné d'avoir organisé des parties fines à Paris et Washington pour DSK et d’avoir réglé une partie des factures sur les comptes de son entreprise.

Au total, huit personnes ont été mises en examen dans cette affaire, principalement pour proxénétisme aggravé en bande organisée, dont un avocat et le commissaire de police Jean-Christophe Lagarde.

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Du materiel? Oh yuck. I hope that's a drugs reference; the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.
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The point of view of Anne Sinclair would probably be interesting...
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Handy animated fucktree, for those having trouble keeping up: Comprendre l'affaire du Carlton en trois minutes - LeMonde.fr

(I'd like the Clearstream one next.)
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