TWENT-FOUR hours after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was charged with attacking and attempting to rape a hotel maid, he is faced with another sex charge.
The IMF chief, who appeared at a New York court yesterday morning, though denied the charges, was refused bail by the judge.
His court hearing was earlier delayed to allow forensic tests to be carried out.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said yesterday that the latest sex charge came from French writer, Tristane Banon. Banon, 31, who has indicated she is considering filing a complaint of sexual assault over a 2002 incident, her lawyer said.
The European Union (EU) says the scandal surrounding Strauss-Kahn should not affect bailouts for eurozone countries.
The IMF has played a central role in organising rescue packages for the troubled economies of Portugal and Greece.
Banon says she was assaulted by Strauss-Kahn when she went to interview him for an article she was writing.
“We’re planning to make a complaint. I am working with her,” Banon’s lawyer David Koubbi told the Agence France Press (AFP) news agency. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have so far not responded to the allegation.
According to Banon’s version of events, Strauss-Kahn said he would only speak to her if she held his hand. He then touched her more and more intimately, and in the end she had to fight him off, she said.
Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, herself a politician from Strauss-Kahn’s centre-left Socialist Party, said she persuaded her daughter not to file a complaint at the time.
“I just want to say that the only reason she didn’t press charges at the time is because I convinced her not to, because I thought it was better for her,” Mansouret told French state TV. Mansouret says she now regrets this advice.
Banon raised the allegation in a TV discussion programme in 2007, but Strauss-Kahn’s name was bleeped out during the broadcast.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, underwent medical examinations on Sunday. Police were looking for scratches or any other evidence of his alleged assault on a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on Saturday afternoon.
He was arrested on board an Air France flight from New York to Paris later on Saturday. He was kept overnight in a special unit for sexual harassment in the district of Harlem.
On Sunday, he was charged with a “criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and attempted rape.” Police say the 32-year-old woman who made the allegations has formally identified him in a line-up.
He had been scheduled to meet German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Sunday in Berlin and then attend an EU finance ministers’ meeting in Brussels yesterday to discuss the Greek and Portuguese bailouts.
The IMF is based in Washington DC but Strauss-Kahn is believed to have been in New York on personal business. He was staying in a hotel suite, which costs $3,000 (£1,854) a night.
He does not have diplomatic immunity, a New York police spokesman said.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayThe IMF chief, who appeared at a New York court yesterday morning, though denied the charges, was refused bail by the judge.
His court hearing was earlier delayed to allow forensic tests to be carried out.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said yesterday that the latest sex charge came from French writer, Tristane Banon. Banon, 31, who has indicated she is considering filing a complaint of sexual assault over a 2002 incident, her lawyer said.
The European Union (EU) says the scandal surrounding Strauss-Kahn should not affect bailouts for eurozone countries.
The IMF has played a central role in organising rescue packages for the troubled economies of Portugal and Greece.
Banon says she was assaulted by Strauss-Kahn when she went to interview him for an article she was writing.
“We’re planning to make a complaint. I am working with her,” Banon’s lawyer David Koubbi told the Agence France Press (AFP) news agency. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have so far not responded to the allegation.
According to Banon’s version of events, Strauss-Kahn said he would only speak to her if she held his hand. He then touched her more and more intimately, and in the end she had to fight him off, she said.
Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, herself a politician from Strauss-Kahn’s centre-left Socialist Party, said she persuaded her daughter not to file a complaint at the time.
“I just want to say that the only reason she didn’t press charges at the time is because I convinced her not to, because I thought it was better for her,” Mansouret told French state TV. Mansouret says she now regrets this advice.
Banon raised the allegation in a TV discussion programme in 2007, but Strauss-Kahn’s name was bleeped out during the broadcast.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, underwent medical examinations on Sunday. Police were looking for scratches or any other evidence of his alleged assault on a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on Saturday afternoon.
He was arrested on board an Air France flight from New York to Paris later on Saturday. He was kept overnight in a special unit for sexual harassment in the district of Harlem.
On Sunday, he was charged with a “criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and attempted rape.” Police say the 32-year-old woman who made the allegations has formally identified him in a line-up.
He had been scheduled to meet German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Sunday in Berlin and then attend an EU finance ministers’ meeting in Brussels yesterday to discuss the Greek and Portuguese bailouts.
The IMF is based in Washington DC but Strauss-Kahn is believed to have been in New York on personal business. He was staying in a hotel suite, which costs $3,000 (£1,854) a night.
He does not have diplomatic immunity, a New York police spokesman said.
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