French culture minister who demanded Roman Polanski be freed paid for sex with 'young boys' in Thailand...

The French government minister who led calls to free Roman Polanski was under pressure to resign today after it emerged he paid for sex with ‘young boys’.

Frederic Mitterand, who is openly gay and a close friend of First Lady Carla Bruni, had described the arrest of the film director for sleeping with a 13-year-old girl as ‘absolutely horrifying’.

But critics were today pointing to the Culture Minister's autobiography ‘The Bad Life’, in which he admits having been a sex tourist in Thailand.

Mitterand, nephew of the late Socialist president Francois Mitterand, wrote: ‘I got into the habit of paying for boys. More...

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