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5 Men Jailed Over Paying For Sexual Acts With 12-Year-Old Girl In France
A French court has jailed five men over paying for sexual acts with a 12-year-old girl, in a rare instance of such a case being brought before a court in the country.
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Former Tour De France Winner Jan Ullrich Held Over Prostitute Assault
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich was arrested early Friday for allegedly assaulting a prostitute in Frankfurt, police said, just a week after the German national was briefly detained in Spain.
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France Declared War On Prostitution, Not On Prostitutes
After more than two years of slow-simmering social drama, the French Parliament passed a bill Wednesday that makes it illegal to pay for sex in France. Prostitution, however, remains legal: The point of the bill is to discourage the practice by penalizing clients instead of prostitutes.
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Prostitution trial linked to Gaddafi's son opens in France
Two men and a woman appeared in a French court on Monday in a case over a Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring that had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moammer Gaddafi.
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Ribery, Benzema face trial over underage escort
French international footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema are to face trial for allegedly soliciting an underage prostitute, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
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France's Strauss-Kahn charged in alleged prostitution ring
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges on Monday alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France, a stunning blow on the home front for the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief.
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French lawmakers move to outlaw prostitution
French lawmakers were to debate a resolution today outlawing prostitution in a test of the country's long history of liberal attitudes toward sex.
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Sex workers rob French footballer Yann Mvila
Two part-time prostitutes suspected of robbing France international midfielder Yann Mvila and a friend face charges in a court hearing on December 6, judicial sources said on Thursday.
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French First Lady Carla Bruni branded 'prostitute' in Iran: Report
French First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has been branded a "prostitute" and a "marriage breaker" in Iran after she criticised a Tehran court ruling of stoning a woman to death for adultery, a media report said.The 42-year-old former Italian supermodel, who signed a petition calling for Iran to free Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani who has been convicted of...
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5 Men Jailed Over Paying For Sexual Acts With 12-Year-Old Girl In France
A French court has jailed five men over paying for sexual acts with a 12-year-old girl, in a rare instance of such a case being brought before a court in the country.
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Former Tour De France Winner Jan Ullrich Held Over Prostitute Assault
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich was arrested early Friday for allegedly assaulting a prostitute in Frankfurt, police said, just a week after the German national was briefly detained in Spain.
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France Declared War On Prostitution, Not On Prostitutes
After more than two years of slow-simmering social drama, the French Parliament passed a bill Wednesday that makes it illegal to pay for sex in France. Prostitution, however, remains legal: The point of the bill is to discourage the practice by penalizing clients instead of prostitutes.
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Prostitution trial linked to Gaddafi's son opens in France
Two men and a woman appeared in a French court on Monday in a case over a Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring that had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moammer Gaddafi.
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Ribery, Benzema face trial over underage escort
French international footballers Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema are to face trial for allegedly soliciting an underage prostitute, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
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France's Strauss-Kahn charged in alleged prostitution ring
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges on Monday alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France, a stunning blow on the home front for the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief.
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French lawmakers move to outlaw prostitution
French lawmakers were to debate a resolution today outlawing prostitution in a test of the country's long history of liberal attitudes toward sex.
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Sex workers rob French footballer Yann Mvila
Two part-time prostitutes suspected of robbing France international midfielder Yann Mvila and a friend face charges in a court hearing on December 6, judicial sources said on Thursday.
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French First Lady Carla Bruni branded 'prostitute' in Iran: Report
French First Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy has been branded a "prostitute" and a "marriage breaker" in Iran after she criticised a Tehran court ruling of stoning a woman to death for adultery, a media report said.The 42-year-old former Italian supermodel, who signed a petition calling for Iran to free Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani who has been convicted of...
