Nine years later, writer to file charge against Strauss-Khan

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2011-07-04 15:47

Story here. Nine years later. Amazing timing. Excerpt:

'PARIS (Reuters) - A French writer will file a legal complaint against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday alleging that he tried to rape her during an incident nine years ago, her lawyer told Reuters Monday.

The move comes just as a U.S. case against Strauss-Kahn on charges of attempted rape and sexual assault of a hotel maid seems close to collapse after prosecutors acknowledged she had lied under oath and changed her story.

The turnabout in the New York case has prompted some calls for the former Socialist finance minister to make a political comeback in France.

Lawyer David Koubbi said the complaint by Tristane Banon, 32, would relate to an incident that took place when she went to interview Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, in an apartment in Paris. She was 22 at the time.

"Tristane Banon will file a complaint Tuesday for attempted rape in Paris," Koubbi said.

"These acts are extremely serious," he added. "These events were combined with a violence that was absolutely striking for these kinds of situations."

The move by Banon, a journalist and author of a book and two novels, will follow Strauss-Kahn's release from house arrest in New York Friday after prosecutors said they now doubted the credibility of his Guinean-born accuser.'

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papa reading paper: he's very rich and he has been accused (some say falsely) of ....

papa: hmmm. paulette, come here.

p: yes papa (they say that sort of stuff in france).

pp/mm: weren't you alone w/ him last...?

yes papa, why?

next day, lawyers office....(cont.)

me: in ye ole football days we called this piling on.
maybe in swimming it would be blood$$$$$ in the water.
which implies sharks (lawyers). xcelnt - but sad.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2011-07-04 21:46

How Convenient.

Badger

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Submitted by badgerb on Mon, 2011-07-04 22:12

Its pretty clear that the only motivator in her coming forward with this story is the hope of cashing in on controversy. Any self-respecting person wouldn't wait nine years to press charges for such a crime.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2011-07-05 16:49

This new case will be strictly a he said/she said case with no evidence.

How do you come up wit ha corroborating witness to prove an alibi for a 9 year old accusation? Trust me, my accuser claimed the events she was accusing me of happened sometime within a 6 month window 10 years prior to when she decided to go on a spree of pressing charges against every male she's ever met.

His problem is that he will have to face the NY accusation in this new trial half way around the world. But unlike Casey Anthony, his seemingly bad character will serve to convict him in a purely circumstantial case.

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Submitted by Paragon on Wed, 2011-07-06 02:17

"Its pretty clear that the only motivator in her coming forward with this story is the hope of cashing in on controversy."

It's already in the article. IE

"a journalist and author of a book and two novels"

Why even mention that if not to direct people into looking those books up. I bet google has gotten a ton of search's for them.

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Submitted by Kratch on Wed, 2011-07-06 21:50