The American actor, Robert De Niro, was arrested by the French vice squad at the Bristol Hotel in Paris yesterday and held for questioning in connection with an international prostitution ring.
Justice officials stressed that Mr de Niro is considered a potential witness at this point. He was detained on a warrant by Judge Frederic N’Guyen, who has been investigating the prostitution ring since October 1996.
Police officers questioned Mr de Niro for several hours at his hotel just around the corner from the French Interior Ministry, before taking him to Judge N’Guyen’s chambers at the Palais de Justice in the evening. He was released after nine hours.
The former Polish tennis champion Wojtek Fibak - a party friend of the 54-year-old star of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Godfather and The Deer-Hunter - has already been placed under investigation for sexual assault in the same case.
Mr de Niro is in Paris for the making of Ronin, an action film by the director John Frankenheimer, about an American with a murky past. He is scheduled to remain until the end of March. Police had attempted to question him last Friday, but found he had already left the Bristol Hotel for the weekend. ...”
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“The American actor, Robert De Niro, was arrested by the French vice squad at the Bristol Hotel in Paris yesterday and held for questioning in connection with an international prostitution ring.
Justice officials stressed that Mr de Niro is considered a potential witness at this point.”
Like an unindicted co conspirator?? Seems to me, police don’t arrest witnesses.