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| Maid picked IMF chief out of line-up, say police as they claim he was trying to flee when ... |
| 2011-05-16 |
| The New York hotel maid accusing IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has picked him out of a line-up, police revealed tonight. A spokesman for the New York Police Department said that Strauss-Kahn and five men of a similar height, weight and appearance were asked to stand on parade whilst the woman stood the other side of a one-way mirror. The victim said: 'That's him' in a 'clear confident voice,' the spokesman said. The potential French presidential candidate is set to appear in court this evening to answer to charges including attempted rape. She told police she was asked to clean the spacious $3,000-a-night suite, which she was told was empty. She then alleges Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from a bathroom, chased her down a hallway, pulled her into a bedroom and began sexually assaulting her, at one point attempting to force her to perform oral sex. 'The housekeeper went into the room and Mr Strauss-Kahn emerged from bathroom naked,' an NYPD spokesman said. 'He grabbed the woman and pulled her into the bedroom and locked the door and then attempted to sexually assault her. 'She managed to get free but he pulled her back, pulled off her trousers and sexually assaulted her. 'The woman managed again to get away and out the door and went to security and told the what happened. The victim of the alleged sex assault is a single mother and 'a sweet lady', a friend said. The African American lady, who is thought to be originally from Ghana, is 'reserved and quiet', the friend claimed. 'She has been at the hotel for about four years and is well liked - I think she is a single mum and just does her work quietly and goes home. Also: There were also allegation from a young french author, Tristane Banon, who described how Strauss-Kahn had forcefully tried to seduce her, allegedly leaving her to having fight him off physically. Gotta take a look at young Tristane's pic. What a dirty old perv. |
| Posted by:Zebulon Thranter9685 |
| #32 heh, JUSTICE - speaking of "charging by the hour": your Mom owes a refund. I found graffiti in hebrew on her inner thigh. I didn't expect a virgin, but yeesh? two IDF battalions? Talk about throwing a hot dog down a bowling alley |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-16 22:21 |
| #31 "We think this case is very defensible" says his lawyer. translation: "I'm charging by the hour" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-16 21:14 |
| #30 "We think this case is very defensible" says his lawyer. Lawspeak for "he's toast if we can't pay off the victim" |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 20:52 |
| #29 Dominique's new lodgings. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-05-16 19:28 |
| #28 Question to NYPD offices: Who is selecting your ties??? The tie on the right? I love that tie! Very retro, very '60s. I think we got my dad a tie like that for Christmas once. He never wore it. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2011-05-16 18:58 |
| #27 An interesting interview from April 28 I Could See Myself Becoming The Victim Of A "Honey Trap" |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-05-16 17:31 |
| #26 Stop... lets think about this... An older very rich white man RAPES a Black Maid and is in a holding cell in HARLEM. ... Time to start booking odds on his sex orientation change.... Damn ... video from that cell has got to be priceless... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-05-16 16:38 |
| #25 Say what you will of the French Bill Clinton, his victims are certainly better looking. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/16/dominique-strauss-khan-tristane-banon And will bring out the rutting chimp in the best of us. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2011-05-16 13:17 |
| #24 I think DB (#21) walks away with the snark of the day on this one. Maybe he figured for $3,000/night he should be allowed to rape anyone he damn well feels like raping - and they should be grateful and bow down and kiss his little head. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-05-16 13:10 |
| #23 maybe his Viagra from the night before didn't wear off so he was chagrin to walk out of the room that way so he thought the maid could help. |
| Posted by: jack salami 2011-05-16 11:58 |
#22 It's not just the NYPDThe IMF boss, 62, who reportedly earns more than $500,000 a year, is said to have been caught after calling the hotel to ask if he had left his phone there.The Sofitel is owned by Accor, the large French hotel company that is part of the CAC-40, the French equivalent of the DJI. For that security official to do that took some cojones. Or instructions from Paris. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 11:57 |
| #21 As IMF chief he is supposed to fuck the poor, but only metaphorically. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-05-16 11:57 |
| #20 Strauss-Kahn is quite the socialist. $3,000 a night hotel suites, $20K suits, first class travel on Air France. I'll bet he has a fair bit of his family on various public and NGO payrolls. All for the little people. Don't know if he'll survive this particular escapade, but I can only hope he's done as a politician. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-05-16 11:34 |
| #19 So an immigrant hotel maid -- one of the least powerful people in the world-- says that one of the most powerful people in the world assaulted her, and a couple of hours later the NYPD has him doing the perp walk. This would have been handled much more, uh, discreetly in so many other countries. My point being: Is this a great country or what? |
| Posted by: Matt 2011-05-16 11:30 |
| #18 Yes but I've also read that police now say the rape took place around noon. Strategy: If the guy invents a false alibi you can destroy it. That's why lawyers instruct their clients to remain silent until they have gotten their story straight. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 10:08 |
| #17 Update Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have proof the IMF chief was at a restaurant having lunch with his daughter at the time he was alleged to be sexually assaulting a hotel maid, France's RMC radio reported on Monday. RMC said the lawyers had pieced together Strauss-Kahn's movements and found that he left the hotel at midday, after paying his bill and handing in his key, then went to eat with his daughter and took a taxi to the airport. The schedule meant he had already left the hotel at the time the maid alleged he chased her down a corridor, forced her into a room and assaulted her, RMC reported on its website, adding that the lawyers had material evidence and witnesses. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-05-16 10:03 |
| #16 French press reports that the lawyers of DSK say that the victim is "very unattractive" and they will go after her to shatter her credibility Surprise |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 10:03 |
| #15 Honest mistake. He'd just ordered a hooker for a quick BJ and thought the maid uniform was part of the service. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-05-16 09:45 |
| #14 now more facts have come out, i believe the maid totally what a perp |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-05-16 09:13 |
| #13 Dick Wolf, call your scriptwriters. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2011-05-16 09:06 |
| #12 Hey can we cut the guy some slack? After all, as a socialist, he's a tireless advocate "for the little guy", and doesn't that absolve him for this sort of minor infraction? |
| Posted by: Ted Kennedy 2011-05-16 08:08 |
| #11 Morning television says they have DNA evidence to support the maid's story. Unless Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers can prove the laboratory produces bad results, he's toast. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-16 07:31 |
| #10 If only they could nail Bernanke. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-05-16 06:41 |
| #9 Question to NYPD offices: Who is selecting your ties??? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 04:12 |
| #8 Maybe he wasn't THAT popular at the IMF? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 02:54 |
| #7 The African American lady, who is thought to be originally from Ghana I guess Ghana can forget getting any more IMF loans. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-16 02:19 |
| #6 I don't think his first concern will be the public mind. He's done anyway. He won't be president. The difference may be 20 years in jail. And once the U.S. legal system has someone in its claws it won't let go easily. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:59 |
| #5 I'm not sure that is going to help him. In the public's mind, that's like hiring OJ Simpson's lawyers after that bloody farce. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-16 00:50 |
| #4 Well he contracted the lawyer who defended Michael Jackson in the child abuse case. Bet that's an adequate pick. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:44 |
| #3 I'm going with Dom contracted jungle fever from bedbugs. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-16 00:41 |
| #2 Perp walk http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2011/05/15/84230ca4-7f73-11e0-ae9c-765696900207.jpg |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:39 |
| #1 I tend to believe the maid. By all accounts all this happened within minutes. No way to invent a fireproof false story. Police would discover flaws very soon. Obviously they didn't. And there's the word of an Afro-American maid against a very powerful man. That takes a lot of guts. And NYPD seems to have guts, too. I hope they can find DNA evidence. Would be terrible if he walked because it's his word against hers. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2011-05-16 00:32 |