French Official Under Fire For Writing On Paid Sex

by Eleanor Beardsley, NPR

When film director Roman Polanski was detained in Switzerland, one of the strongest critics of his arrest was French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand. Now Mitterrand, a nephew of a former French president, is in political hot water himself because of revelations about having paid boys for sex in Thailand.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, October 9, 2009