PARIS (Reuters) - Five years after the sex scandal that forced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign, hundreds of female French politicians on Tuesday denounced sexual harassment in the corridors of power and a Mafia-style code of silence that lets it go unpunished.
Their petition published on the front page of left-wing newspaper Liberation came a day after the surfacing of another sex scandal, which triggered the resignation of the vice-president of France's lower house of parliament, Denis Baupin.
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