London: Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was bundled into the back of a police car to escape protesters after a speaking engagement at Britain's Cambridge University on Friday that angered women's rights activists.
About 150 demonstrators, waving banners and chanting ‘two, four, six, eight, no more violence, no more rape" had circled the Cambridge Union Society where Strauss-Kahn delivered a speech on globalisation and the Eurozone to a select group of students.
As the French economist left, the angry crowd, shouting references to the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, tried to scale 20-metre barricades guarded by police and security officers set up to protect him.
Placards were thrown at the car and protesters scuffled with officers as he was whisked away.
"I don't think he should have been invited here to speak to students," student Morgan Wild, 23, said. "I think it's part of a crass PR campaign …and we shouldn't be taken for fools."
Cambridge Police said a 19-year-old man was arrested for assaulting an officer and a woman, 22, was detained for a breach of the peace. Two others were arrested after banners were plastered all over the Union Society building.
