Littleport man charged with obstructing Pc during protest as Strauss-Kahn arrived for Cambridge talk
A MAN from Littleport was charged with obstructing a police officer when hundreds protested outside a Cambridge union where Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave a controversial talk.
Hundreds of placard waving students protested outside Cambridge University’s Union Society last night as the former head of the International Monetary Fund arrived.
A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with obstructing a police officer and will appear before Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on March 20.
Also arrested and charged were a 21-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man, both from Cambridge, on suspicion of criminal damage. They will appear at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on March 19.
The decision to invite Mr Strauss-Kahn, who faced charges of sexually assaulting New York maid Nafissatou Diallo, which were later dropped, was opposed by the women’s campaign of the Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) who branded it an “abhorrent disregard” for survivors of sexual violence.
Earlier in the week CUSU had presented the Union Society with a 700-signature petition protesting at the decision to invite DSK, as he is often known, to speak in Cambridge.
But the Cambridge Union Society defended its decision saying he was invited for his expertise on matters of economics.
Most Read
- 1 Police 'increasingly concerned' for man missing since early hours yesterday
- 2 Three rail and bus strikes in London and the East this week
- 3 Product sold at Tesco recalled due to risk of disease-causing bacteria
- 4 Man, 28, dies after truck and lorries crash on A47
- 5 Andre Rieu brings new summer concert to Cambridgeshire cinemas
- 6 Two combine harvesters catch fire in under 12 hours
- 7 Unauthorised encampments across Cambs a 'tricky issue' says Police and Crime Commissioner
- 8 £150,000 splashpad to open in Wisbech
- 9 Discount store expanding making it ‘bigger and better for customers’
- 10 Arson causes fire to rip through derelict building
Mr Strauss-Kahn was bundled in through a side door with dozens of security guards and police at the scene.
No press or photographers were allowed to attend the talk.