France

France's BFMTV news network on Thursday broadcast for the first time footage from security cameras at the New York hotel where former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was staying when he was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

A controversial move by French lawmakers to prohibit prostitution by targeting those who pay for sex will put the lives of prostitutes in danger, organizations representing sex workers told FRANCE 24 this week.

French lawmakers passed a resolution Tuesday in favour of making prostitution illegal. The move would include fines and jail time for those paying for sex. The non-binding resolution was approved by a show of hands in France’s lower house.

France's interior minister, Claude Gueant, said on Sunday that former IMF chief Dominique Straus-Kahn (pictured) was stopped five years ago by police in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, known for being a popular spot for prostitutes.

Embattled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn requested on Friday to give evidence before a judicial panel investigating an alleged prostitution ring, claiming reports that linked him to it made him the victim of a "media lynching".

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn vehemently denies French media reports that he hired prostitutes at an upscale hotel in the northern French city of Lille, his lawyer said Sunday.

Soliciting sex could soon be criminalised, with jail sentences and hefty fines for offenders, if French lawmakers pass legislation that has been recommended by a parliamentary report published on Wednesday.

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Germany opened a probe Thursday into allegations that French football star Franck Ribery knowingly paid for sex with an underage prostitute, in Munich in 2009. France has also opened investigations on the footballer.

Police questioned French football stars Franck Ribery (left) and Karim Benzema (right) again on Tuesday in an ongoing probe into an underage prostitution ring at a Parisian nightclub on the Champs Elysees.