Strauss-Kahn may face group rape allegation

French investigators looking into Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille want to extend the inquiry to cover alleged group rape by the former IMF chief and three friends, prosecutors said on Friday.

French investigators looking into Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille want to extend the inquiry to cover alleged group rape by the former IMF chief and three friends, prosecutors said on Friday.

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Strauss-Kahn is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille, Paris and Washington.

Investigators have asked prosecutors to widen the inquiry after a prostitute told them in her deposition that Strauss-Kahn and friends forced her to have sex in a group when she came to Washington to meet him in December 2010.

Strauss-Kahn, however, denied committing any acts of violence against women. He “absolutely contests having committed the slightest act of violence”, his lawyers said.