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Police investigate suspicious death of French academic

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:51 am
by Gasopol111
(Reuters) - A prominent French academic, Richard Descoings, was found dead naked in a New York hotel room on Tuesday afternoon. New York police have opened an investigation because they believe the circumstances of his death are suspicious.

A law enforcement source said that the body of Descoings, director of the prestigious Institute of Political Studies in Paris and a member of France's Council of State, a government advisory body, was found on Tuesday afternoon in his room at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Descoings was in New York to attend a conference at Columbia University but did not show up on Tuesday morning when the conference was due to begin, the source said.

Colleagues subsequently phoned the hotel. When staff members first went to his room, they believed they heard snoring and let the matter drop.

When Descoings still did not appear at the conference, hotel staff again visited his room and this time opened the door. Inside, they found Descoings' nude body and the room in disarray.

The law enforcement source said that police were treating the circumstances of Descoings' death as suspicious. While there was no indication of forced entry into his room, there were indications that alcohol had been consumed, and also indications that more than one person may have been in the room with Descoings.

The institute which Descoings led, known in French as the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (or colloquially as "Sciences Po") is one of France's most distinguished academic institutions and widely regarded as an elite school for future high-ranking officials and politicians.

The investigation into the death of Descoings will be the second major investigation in a year to be launched by New York police involving a major French personality.

Last year, New York police arrested the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, after a chambermaid at a Times Square area hotel accused him of sexual assault. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dropped.

Strauss-Kahn, who once was a potential candidate for the French presidency, is now under investigation by French authorities for his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring in the northern French city of Lille.

Strauss-Kahn was once a professor at the "Sciences Po" institute which Descoings headed.






http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/ ... 5P20120403

Re: Police investigate suspicious death of French academic

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:53 am
by Gasopol111
Prescription pills, alcohol, cigarettes and a condom were found in the room






Authorities are probing the mysterious death of a leading French academic whose lifeless body was discovered in a midtown hotel room Tuesday.

Richard Descoings, 52, was found dead and nude at around 4 p.m. inside room 723 at The Michelangelo Hotel on West 51st Street, sources said.

A medical examiner will determine the cause of death. The autopsy was awaiting toxicology results, which could take weeks.

While nothing has been ruled out, there is no evidence of a crime -- no sign of blunt trauma, strangulation or other form of violence, a law enforcement official said. Descoings' wife came to New York City Wednesday and was being interviewed by investigators.

Police are trying to locate two men believed to have entered his room overnight.

Prescription pills, alcohol, cigarettes and a condom were found in the room, and a number of pills were found in his stomach, according to a law enforcement source. Descoings' credit cards and some euros were also still there. His computer and iPhone were found on a third-floor landing of the hotel below his seventh-floor window.

One law enforcement official said the room appeared to be in disarray, though some of it may have been caused by EMT workers when they responded to aid Descoings.

Descoings is a director at France's prestigious Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He also serves as an adviser to France’s political leaders.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Descoings a pioneer in education who made the school "world renowned."

Sarkozy said Descoings gave underprivileged students the chance to study at the prestigious school, marking "a historic turning point in awareness of scandalous social elitism in France."

Descoings was in New York to attend a conference at Columbia University but never showed up, an NYPD spokesman said. Colleagues were worried and called the hotel to check on him at around 1 p.m. When staff checked, they thought he was sleeping, according to the spokesman. Police were later called around 4 p.m.

The NYPD investigation into the death of a prominent French citizen comes nearly a year after authorities here investigated sex abuse allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a one-time contender for the French presidency. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dropped.




http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ri ... 27885.html

Re: Police investigate suspicious death of French academic

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:01 am
by Gasopol111
The interview of mentally ill degenerated Richard Descoings, the rotten-satanic oligarchy






http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xas92t ... de-me_news




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