Ex-IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn Charged With Aggravated Pimping

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, looks on prior to a television interview at the TV news broadcast by French TV station TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Sunday Sept.... Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, looks on prior to a television interview at the TV news broadcast by French TV station TF1, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, Sunday Sept. 18, 2011. Strauss-Kahn has dismissed French writer Tristane Banon's claims that he tried to rape her during a 2003 interview as "imaginary" and insisted there was "no act of aggression, no violence." (AP Photo/Francois Guillot, pool) MORE LESS
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PARIS (AP) — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping.

Judges investigating the case in the northern French city of Lille decided on Friday to go ahead with charges of aggravated pimping in a group — rejecting prosecutors’ calls for the case to be dropped on the grounds of lack of evidence.

Frederique Baulieu, one of Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, said her client committed no infraction.

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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