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The Royal Ulster Constabulary yesterday questioned seven IRA suspects over the murder of senior Ulster Defence Association member Bobby Dougan. If it is proved that the killers belong to the IRA then Sinn Fein’s participation in the talks is thought to be untenable.
Mr Dougan was the second man to be killed by republican terrorists within 24 hours. Mr Al Ladki also revealed the names of other alleged clients, including Saudi and Gulf princes. He told investigators that the service had been used for many years by big business, especially the French arms industry, as a way of sweetening contracts with Arab states. Ms Nielsen has already been linked to the story and has adamantly denied it.The investigation began in October 1996 with the routine bugging and phone tapping of a suspected prostitution ring, operating from the 16th arrondissement, one of the wealthiest areas of Paris. Other arrests included a photographer, Jean-Pierre Bourgeois, who specialised in glamour shots for upmarket men’s magazines, and a Lebanese businessman called Nazihabdulatis Al Ladki.Investigators seized diaries, records and address books with the names of young women, and their clients, from all over the world, from Britain to Indonesia by way of the United States. The inquiry led to the arrest in January last year of a Swedish former model, Annika Brumarck, the apparent head of the organisation.

The newspaper Le Figaro reported yesterday that Judge N’Guyen would like to question Brigitte Nielsen, the actress and former wife of Sylvester Stallone, about these allegations. Mr Fibak faces a possible charge of rape, after a young woman claimed that he paid the agency to have sex with her against her will. He denies the accusation.Several other witnesses have told the judge that – in a deal brokered by the agency – an American actress accepted $1m for a sexual encounter in the South of France with a member of a Gulf royal family. He accused the judge, Frederic N’Guyen, of flagrant publicity seeking and personally leaking news of the actor’s questioning to the media.Mr N’Guyen’s 15-month investigation has already led him into legal and diplomatic murky waters, involving Saudi and Gulf princes, secret agents, Hollywood actresses, sports stars, high-class prostitution and arms contracts.Six people, including the former Polish tennis star Wotjek Fibak, have been placed under formal examination – a step short of a charge – for their involvement with a global call-girl ring run from an apartment in Paris. French judicial sources say that the actor is regarded as a potential witness, not a suspect, in a case which already reads like a plot from an implausible airport novel. It is alleged that Mr De Niro was approached by the agency about a possible sexual encounter with a teenaged girl but that no meeting ever took place.
If De Niro is not a suspect, his lawyer, Georges Kiejman, asked, why did agents of the French vice squad, in effect arrest him outside his hotel in Paris on Tuesday? He had already offered his full co-operation. Why were the press immediately informed, although the investigation is supposed under French law to be secret?Mr Kiejman brought actions yesterday against the judge leading the investigation for violating the privacy and right to freedom of movement of his client.

THE ACTOR Robert De Niro yesterday sued a French judge who questioned him on Tuesday about his involvement with an international prostitution agency. She asked him to wait, so he stood in line for 20 minutes until she returned with a bag containing $1,500 He was arrested as he left the bank.. Apart from the success in keeping away snails, rice yield has also risen because of the manure’s quality as fertiliser.4. Medicine: The British Medical Journal reported a study showing that people with coronary heart disease wave their arms around more than people free of cardiac complaints. But they say it is unclear whether people who gesticulate are more prone to heart disease, or whether heart disease causes agitation which makes people wave their arms more.5. Crime: A bank robber in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, handed the teller a note demanding money and threatening to set off a bomb. Death: An employee in an Egyptian mortuary collapsed and died when a body he had been sent to collect from the refrigerator got out of its coffin and stood up.

Abdel-Satar Badawi woke from a coma after 12 hours in the morgue. “I moved my hands and pushed the coffin’s lid to find myself among the dead,” he said.3. Waste products: Rice farmers in Laos were reported to be winning the battle against snails by sprinkling pig manure over the plants. Medicine: Research at Harvard Medical School reported that sexual activity has “a low likelihood of triggering a myocardial infarction”. The risk of a healthy person suffering a heart attack because of sexual activity was shown to be about one in a million, and only two in a million for someone with heart disease.5. Crime: A thief was arrested in Bangkok after he had snatched a woman’s purse then hidden in the lavatory of a police station. he had mistaken the Thai-style roof of the rest-room for that of a Buddhist temple.