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France fixated on 'orgy' scandal
By Caroline Wyatt
BBC, Paris
This has been the scandal to end all scandals in France - a potent brew of sex and politics served daily by the country's media.
It has slavery, sado-masochism, rape, drugs and murder.
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The French public has been treated to almost daily updates from Toulouse, where the allegations are that senior city officials not only covered up for a serial killer, Patrice Alegre, who says he organised sado-masochistic orgies for them, but that they even ordered some of his killings to protect themselves from blackmail.
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... [T]he politician who has suffered the most damaging accusations is the veteran French politician Dominique Baudis, head of the independent broadcasting watchdog, the Conseil superieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), and a former mayor of Toulouse.
He has led a vocal anti-pornography campaign over the past year, and says the accusations are a political vendetta intended to smear his name.
He is also a member of the ruling centre-right UMP.
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In the letter, [Alegre] wrote that during a meeting in a mansion in Toulouse he had been ordered to \"shut Martinez up\" by officials who had taken part in group sex at the orgies. Martinez was a male prostitute who had filmed the guests with a hidden camera, and was planning to blackmail officials with the evidence.
Alegre said that during the orgies, \"everyone had sniffed coke as hard as they could\". But, he said, he \"imagined this affair would be covered-up, because all the people implicated in it are people with power\".
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By Caroline Wyatt
BBC, Paris
This has been the scandal to end all scandals in France - a potent brew of sex and politics served daily by the country's media.
It has slavery, sado-masochism, rape, drugs and murder.
....
The French public has been treated to almost daily updates from Toulouse, where the allegations are that senior city officials not only covered up for a serial killer, Patrice Alegre, who says he organised sado-masochistic orgies for them, but that they even ordered some of his killings to protect themselves from blackmail.
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... [T]he politician who has suffered the most damaging accusations is the veteran French politician Dominique Baudis, head of the independent broadcasting watchdog, the Conseil superieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), and a former mayor of Toulouse.
He has led a vocal anti-pornography campaign over the past year, and says the accusations are a political vendetta intended to smear his name.
He is also a member of the ruling centre-right UMP.
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In the letter, [Alegre] wrote that during a meeting in a mansion in Toulouse he had been ordered to \"shut Martinez up\" by officials who had taken part in group sex at the orgies. Martinez was a male prostitute who had filmed the guests with a hidden camera, and was planning to blackmail officials with the evidence.
Alegre said that during the orgies, \"everyone had sniffed coke as hard as they could\". But, he said, he \"imagined this affair would be covered-up, because all the people implicated in it are people with power\".
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