AFP - Paris prosecutors said Wednesday that they had launched a preliminary investigation on claims that a former Minister sexually abused boys in an orgy of Morocco several years ago.
Child protection police will conduct investigation and had to speak with the Minister of education former Luc Ferry, which was sensational on another former Minister claims, officials said.
Ferry let slip the claim on the politician, that he was not named, when it appeared on television Monday to discuss the scandals sexual French such as the arrest of New York from IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has tried to rape charges.
The ferry's intention seems to be to quote a story revealing the extent to which French law prevented the politicians and journalists from discussing individual sexual behviour behind closed doors.
But his comments cause a storm of criticism, with political figures piling demand it provide authorities with evidence of wrongdoing or withdraw the claim as a considerable rumors unfounded.
On Wednesday, face criticism, Ferry backpedalled in an interview with the weekly news magazine L'Express website.
"I was trying to defend the press respects the privacy and is not guilty of defamation," he said. "I have no evidence, or no specific details on this subject, but when I was a Minister I've heard about."
Ferry served as education Minister in Government of centre-right former between 2002 and 2004. It was does not clear his comments if he was accusing a former colleague or a Minister of administration earlier.
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