NEW YORK - Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on Sunday (05/15/2011), vowed to fight allegations that he had committed sexual abuse of a hotel chambermaid. Allegations of sex scandals would probably bury a dream Strauss Khan become the next French president.
French veteran politician, who is shamefully led away from a police station in New York with his hands in handcuffs, will defend himself against accusations that he had committed sexual assault on a waiter at a luxury hotel, said a lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told reporters. "He intends to vigorously defend themselves from allegations and denies any wrongdoing whatsoever," Brafman said outside the courthouse where the director of the IMF it will appear on this Monday.
The news about the arrest of one of the most influential person in the world that has caused a headache ahead of the International Monetary Fund talks about the impact of critical debt crisis that hit the euro zone. Strauss-Kahn, 62, has hired several top lawyers to handle the case amid questions about whether he can escape from prosecution.
On Sunday night, police spokesman in New York said the director of the IMF does not have the right to diplomatic immunity.
Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, was expected to become the strongest challenger to President Nicolas Sarkozy in the French elections in 2012. But it threatened his political ambitions would not be accomplished after he was arrested from the Air France flight on Saturday just minutes before takeoff. He is accused of a "sexual criminal acts, violating the law, and attempted rape" against a woman aged 32 years, said a police spokesman in New York. The woman, who has worked for three years at the luxurious Sofitel hotel near Times Square, has appointed Strauss-Kahn as the suspect who tried to rape her, Sunday, from a row of people with posture and looks about the same as that presented by the police. The police also said they had made a warrant to search for DNA evidence on his clothes.
According to her, Strauss-Kahn had attacked him in the room when Strauss Kahn came out of the bathroom naked. "She (the woman) was in the room. He thought the room was empty. It was then that he (Strauss-Kahn) approached him from behind and touched her inappropriately. He forced the woman to perform sexual acts for him," said spokesman the policeman told AFP.
Police described, the victim of a "female, black, 32 years old," but could not confirm the details of which have been exposed to the New York Times that the director of the IMF was pulled into the bedroom and on to the bed and locked the door. The woman managed to fight him, but Strauss Kahn dragged him into the hallway to the bathroom, where Kahn was sexually attacked for the second time he had, the daily reported.
MSNBC television said, in the bathroom, Strauss-Kahn to force her to perform oral sex to her and tried to take off her underwear.
Strauss-Kahn's wife, French television journalist Anne Sinclair, said he did not believe the accusations against her husband. He told AFP, "I have no doubt he is innocent."
Strauss-Kahn, who has been praised for its success in the IMF, is very famous in France and he is often referred to only by initials, DSK. Although not yet officially announced his candidacy in the French presidential elections next year, he has topped the poll. News of his arrest had been dumped the Socialist Party, the party supporters, into chaos.
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