The Carlton Affair

The French press has been printing volumes on the elaborate prostitution ring involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and other high-profile figures. In the space of seven months DSK has gone from political super-star to immoral cad to bottom-of-the-barrel scumbag. Now it seems that even his long-suffering wife Anne Sinclair has had enough and is contemplating divorce, except for her fear of causing him a nervous breakdown. A reader sent this English-language article from the Telegraph for your perusal.

Checking the French sites, I find the headlines read "The word divorce is no longer taboo", "Revelations on the hidden face of DSK", and "The frightful double life of DSK". I also find that the Strauss-Kahns are preparing lawsuits against certain media for violation of privacy.

In this embarrassment of riches, it was difficult to choose an article, so I went back to English Google and found one that conveniently lists the names of the leading players in this marathon tale of smokey brothels and dens of iniquity. One is Jean-Christophe Lagarde, the police commissioner for the department of the Nord, which includes the city of Lille:

An ambitious senior civil servant, Lagarde believed that “by cultivating a close relationship with DSK he would have an important role in a future Socialist administration,” according to one unnamed source quoted in the French daily newspaper Libération.

Lagarde is accused of having booked rooms at the Carlton Hotel in Lille with “extras” (prostitutes) thrown in, according to the newspaper.

He is also accused of attending a night out in Paris in the spring of 2010, with a prostitute, in the company of Strauss-Kahn. Lagarde also accompanied Roquet and Paszkowski on trips to New York in the company of the “secretaries”.

Lagarde, who was detained by police last Thursday for questioning, denies any wrongdoing.

Then we have René Kojfer, the public relations manager of the Carlton Hotel in Lille:

Head of public relations at the Carlton Hotel in Lille, 69-year-old Rene Kojfer is also under investigation for "aggravated pimping".

Investigators believe that Kojfer supplied the prostitutes through a Belgian contact, Dominique Alderweireld, the owner of massage parlours and hostess bars.

Kojfer was arrested on the basis of hours of tapped telephone calls with Alderweireld.

Another key figure is the Belgian pimp - Dominique Alderweireld, a.k.a. Dodo la Saumure:

Alderweireld owns massage parlours in Belgium, near the French border and the city of Lille.

He was arrested in early October in Belgium for prostitution offenses.

French Prosecutors are investigating whether Alderweireld supplied the prostitutes that attended the "special evenings" in Paris, and even in Washington.

The background of these adult games is long and complex and reads like an X-rated film noir where ambitions, perversions, money-laundering, delusions of grandeur, greed, and manipulation of the authority converge on an international scale. Le Figaro has a series of articles on the Carlton Hotel scandal, one of which is entitled "The Underside of the Carlton Hotel Affair". Here are just the opening paragraphs, which should be enough to give you an idea of the prevailing tone:

There was talk about call-girls, orgies, and juicy details. Then they discovered that this incredible "palace scandal" that is sullying the dignitaries of Lille, the police and also… DSK, masked an international network of prostitution, drug trafficking and trafficking of all sorts. It was an instructive investigation.

"I too had problems with DSK. My girls had come for that… and still he managed to corner one in the washroom." Dodo la Saumure, pimp by profession, was not talking about Sofitel in New York with Nafissatous Diallo, but L'Aventure in Paris with his "companion" Béa. According to the king of Belgian brothels, Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been rough with her in the marbled basement of the restaurant. Rough with this heady blond who didn't like it. Pinch yourself…

According to our information, the pimp Dodo la Saumure blackmailed the prostitutes. He took photos of them and threatened to send copies to their families or to the welfare office if they tried to get out of the prostitution business.

Let's go back to May 17, 2011, to the Smoke Havanas, a bar for meeting girls in Tournai, near the Franco-Belgian border In the middle of the afternoon, the bar was deserted. But it was in this dark atmosphere that Dominique Alderweireld, known as Dodo la Saumure, wanted to be seen. Sprawled out on a faux leather sofa, served by Pat, a blond worn out by thirty years of street-walking, the pimp was master of his realm. Amidst acrid cigar smoke, before a bottle of champagne, the decor was established: Dodo and his friends reenacted The Godfather, with a lot less class. Three days previously, the head of the IMF had gotten caught with his pants down at the Sofitel in New York. The 62-year-old pimp wanted to show that he "knew" that powerful men were among his clients. What he did not know, however, was that at the precise moment when he was tasting victory, at the moment when he swore that he had "cops and judges in his pocket", and waved about a copy of a court ruling exonerating him, he was already watched by the police. And so was his friend René Kojfer, the public relations man at the Carlton Hotel, sitting in front of him. This grandfather perfumed with eau de Cologne, a charmer when he wanted to be, did not realize that at the moment when he called "a policeman who owed him a favor", he was being bugged. It was already a fait accompli. In barely five months, the accomplices who chuckled in the light of a faceted crystal pendant would be caught in an immense Franco-Belgian dragnet.

Below, Dodo la Saumure (real name Dominique Alderweireld) with his cigar.


The affair might have gone unnoticed if the pimp and his accomplice had been willing to "fall" alone. But this was not the case. The Dodo-Kojfer duo carried with it in its fall eleven other persons. Among them dignitaries, a lawyer, police, business leaders, managers at the Carlton… Le Tout-Lille seemed to have gone wild in orgies and call-girls. Their playgrounds? Luxury hotels in Lille, Paris and Washington.

In October, the party's over: twelve persons were investigated in France and Belgium, and the name of DSK was again was badly damaged. But we have gone too far. The truculent affair that had caused all of the high society of Lille to tremble began far from the cameras, miles away from the palaces, among Dodo la Saumure's sordid conspirators. At the heart of the "Carlton Affair" was an international prostitution network that grew larger as time the years passed, a network sustained by a forty-year-old trans-border friendship. (…)


The story goes on for many pages. The friendship in question is that between Dodo la Saumure and René Kojfer. Dodo began life as a Frenchman, but moved his business across the border to Belgium. A prostitute named Béatrice Legrain, known as Béa, became his companion, and was presumably molested by DSK as described above. Béa, who was known to be "borderline psychopathic", was multi-lingual and aided in the proliferation of the business in foreign countries, including Spain, Morocco and Eastern Europe. The business may have included child prostitution, as Kojfer was said to prefer little girls, as well as weapons trafficking. It is possible, though not certain, that cocaine traffic was also one of Dodo's activities, and that the drug was transported by his right-hand man Jean-Jacques Martin, nicknamed The Assassin.

The photo above shows Béa, seated, with a woman who is obviously one of her employees.

Thanks to a mysterious French informer, Dodo, Béa, and The Assassin are now behind bars. René Kojfer is under investigation in France. DSK is soon to be interrogated, and he is suing Le Figaro.

The above is only a sample of the great amount of information available in French on this scandal. I cannot say that this affair is a sign of the times, because this sort of activity is not new. It truly is the oldest established... And when we factor in the political situation in Lille, where the mayor has worked hard to Islamize the city, and Brussels, the center of the loathsome European Union, and Washington where the President of the United States is aiding in the establishment of sharia law in many parts of the world; when we consider the rampant crime throughout Europe and the sexual depths to which people are sinking, then we can regard the Carlton Affair as almost quaintly old-fashioned. After all, there were right-minded people within the police department who tracked down the culprits after an informer who still had a sense of moral right and wrong spilled the beans. And some of the curs are actually behind bars! But we cannot put behind bars our progressive pedagogues who teach our children the joys of homosexual sex, or the imperative to mix races, or the right of women to do with their bodies anything they please, or the evils of colonialism, or the evils of nationalism, etc...