Strauss-Kahn to face pimping trial

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face a French court on charges of aggravated pimping.

Judges investigating the case in the northern French city of Lille decided today 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 offence.