Lille (France) (AFP) - 08:07 GMT - WELCOME TO AFP'S LIVE REPORT on the trial of ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn who is set to take the stand for the first time to answer pimping charges.
Strauss-Kahn will have three days to fend off accusations that he procured prostitutes for sex parties along with 13 others on trial at the courthouse in Lille, southern France.
The former French presidential hopeful, known in France as DSK, is expected to argue that while he is a libertine who enjoyed orgies, he had no idea the women involved were prostitutes.