They Do Things Differently In….France
It seems that France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand, nephew of former President Francois Mitterand, is in a spot of hot water. Four years ago he wrote about paying for sex with young boys in Thailand – an admission which went largely unremarked at the time. However his recent defence of Roman Polanski has brought his remarks back into the public eye.
In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: “I got into the habit of paying for boys,” saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing “the sordid details of this traffic”.
“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.”
From the Daily Telegraph:
Mr Mitterrand, who joined the cabinet in June, was considered a great catch for Mr Sarkozy and proof of his “open” style of government; the minister comes from a grand Socialist family and is admired by many in the Left-wing cultural establishment. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady, was said to have had a hand in his nomination.
And from the BBC:
Mr Mitterrand said it was an honour to be dragged though the mud by the National Front, and criticised the Socialists for making common cause with the extreme right.
A senior aide to President Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, on Thursday backed the minister, saying the row was “excessive and quite undignified”.
However from TheEye:
String him up from the nearest lamppost and hand out baseball bats with nails in them to passers-by.
They do things differently in France, it seems. Enough said.
As my fellow blogger Rantin Rob might say, fucking bender.
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Yep, thats pretty much spot on.
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