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10-10-2009, 01:32 PM
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#1 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
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| French Minister does Thai Boys, Sarkozy Supports Him
Quote: Nicolas Sarkozy backs 'sex tourism' minister Frederic Mitterrand
President Nicolas Sarkozy has given his backing to his embattled culture minister Frederic Mitterrand who travelled to Thailand to have sex with 'young boys'.
By Peter Allen in Paris
Published: 5:42PM BST 08 Oct 2009
Frédéric Mitterrand: Frédéric Mitterrand admitted to paying for sex with 'young boys? in Thailand
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand leaves a cabinet meeting on June
24, 2009 Photo: AP
A close aide dismissed calls for Mr Mitterrand's resignation despite his admission in an autobiographical book.
Henri Guaino, a member of the president's inner circle, described criticism of Mr Mitterrand, a nephew of former Socialist president, Francois Mitterrand, as "pathetic" and said there was no need for him to leave the government.
The revelations surfaced after opposition politicians seized on Mr Mitterrand's championing of Roman Polanski and his demand the director be released after being arrested in Switzerland in connection with his conviction in the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
They quoted passages from Mr Mitterrand's 2005 autobiography The Bad Life, in which he admitted having been a sex tourist in Thailand, and which was written before he entered government.
But Mr Guaino said: "French political debate sometimes takes on a pathetic form. It's excessive and quite undignified."
Asked whether Mr Mitterrand should resign, Mr Guaino said: "When there is a controversy as pathetic as this, with so much delay, I don't think there should be such drastic consequences."
Mr Guaino said there were no facts to back up the accusations and Mr Mitterrand had not been subject to any legal complaints.
But the affair appeared to have provoked a split in the government, with the labour minister Xavier Darcos saying Mr Mitterrand needed to explain his behaviour.
In his book, Mr Mitterrand wrote: "I got into the habit of paying for boys ... All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously ... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."
The publisher described the book as a "novel inspired by autobiography". Mr Mitterrand denies having sex with anyone underage.
In an interview before the scandal broke this week, Mr Sarkozy described Mr Mitterrand's book as "courageous".
He was drafted into Mr Sarkozy's cabinet in June after lobbying by Carla Bruni, France's First Lady.
France considers itself to be at the forefront of the fight against international sex tourism abroad, initiating a number of prosecutions.
| http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...itterrand.html
original article quotes Quote: “I got into the habit of paying for boys...All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excite me enormously.
“One could judge this abominable spectacle from a moral standpoint but it pleases me beyond the reasonable.”
Curiously, there was little outcry when the book was published in 2005. However, Mr Mitterrand’s tastes were brought to the fore on Monday by Marine Le Pen, daughter of the far-right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, on a political chat show.
Miss Le Pen read out a passage in which Mr Mitterrand wrote: “The profusion of very attractive and immediately available young boys puts me in a state of desire that I no longer need to hinder nor hide...as I know that I will not be refused.” | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Thailand.html  WOW wtf and he's being protected just because he's a former presidents nephew and the butt buddy of Sarkozy (for supporting his trophy wife) oO
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10-10-2009, 02:02 PM
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#2 | | ESKETIT
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hes all about the thai surprise `
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10-10-2009, 02:05 PM
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#3 | | Banned (BBM)
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what is it with high profile people in liking little boys?
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10-10-2009, 04:13 PM
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#4 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Someone make a headline about his picture hgahah
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