Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in court on Monday to stand trial for “pimping” as part of a prostitution ring, four years after a sex scandal cost him his job and a shot at the French presidency. The disgraced 65-year-old economist finds himself back in the dock — this time in the northern French city of lille — accused of being at the centre of a vice ring which hired prostitutes for sex parties in Brussels, Paris and Washington.
The silver-haired Strauss-Kahn, dressed in a dark suit, slipped past a throng of journalists to arrive in the empty wood-panelled courtroom, where he paced up and down with his hands in his pockets in front of the imposing stone bench.