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March 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Over 150 protesters from the university’s student union Women’s Campaign marched through the university and then gathered outside the Cambridge Union Society to voice their opposition against Strauss-Kahn, who was giving private speech to hundreds of students over economics.
Two students were arrested after the protesters clashed with police officers who were whisking Strauss-Kahn away from the photographers and demonstrators. A 19-year-old male student arrested for assaulting an officer, and a 23-year-old female student held for violating the peace, Cambridgeshire police said.
The protesters voiced their opposition against the society’s appalling decision to invite Strauss-Kahn because “of his former economic position and alleged criminal notoriety.”
“I don’t think he should have been invited here to speak to students,” a protester said. “I think it’s part of a crass PR campaign to rehabilitate his reputation and we shouldn’t be taken for fools.”
Ruth Graham, the student union women’s officer, stressed that the demonstrators were concerned “about legitimizing Strauss-Kahn by allowing him such a prestigious platform,” and worried that his presence would “perpetuate a culture where victims of sexual violence are ignored.”
Strauss-Kahn resigned as the head of the IMF after he was charged with raping a New York hotel maid in the US. Last month, he was also questioned for allegedly participating in a ring that organized sex parties at restaurants and swingers clubs in Washington, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, and Ghent, Austria.
Just before Strauss-Kahn’s speech, Douglas Wigdor, who represents New York hotel maid Diallo, addressed the students. Saying he was “flabbergasted” at the invitation that was “an affront to all victims of sexual crimes.”
“For some strange reason Strauss-Khan believes he can go around the world and talk about the foreign debt crisis and the state of the European economy without being questioned about what he did to an innocent woman,” he added.
The French economist was then escorted in a police car to escape facing protesters and to avoid the awaiting journalists and photographers.
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