French judges decided on Wednesday not to drop aggravated pimping charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is under fire over sex parties with prostitutes in the so-called Carlton Affair, named after a hotel in northern France at the centre of the inquiry, reports France 24.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have admitted that the former International Monetary Fund chief attended “libertine” gatherings, but insist that he did not know some of the women present were paid. They have also argued that the investigating judges are biased.
The case is one part of an international legal saga that exposed Strauss-Kahn’s sex life to the harsh media sportlight and buried his French presidential ambitions.
Just over a week ago Strauss-Kahn settled a separate civil case in New York with hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, who accused him of attempted rape in May 2011 and which brought his career at the IMF to an abrupt end.
Read more of this report from France 24.