Paris, Sept 30 (ANI): The French writer who had accused former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her in 2003, has said that she had repeated her allegation during a police-arranged encounter with him on Thursday.
"There was a rape attempt and I repeated that," The New York Post quoted Tristane Banon, as saying after the two-hour meeting with Strauss-Kahn, which was part of a police investigation to allow prosecutors to decide whether to go ahead with the charges.
Strauss-Kahn has been denying the allegations, calling them imaginary, and is reportedly suing her for defamation.
Reports suggest that he left the meeting, which he attended without lawyers, with a smile on his face. I had in front of me exactly the same Strauss-Kahn that I saw on television, with the same arrogance, the same coldness," Banon, who lodged a formal complaint against Strauss-Kahn in July, said.
Banon brought the charge after Strauss-Kahn was accused of attempting to rape a New York hotel maid, although charges related to that case were dropped after US prosecutors deemed the alleged victim unreliable.
"I thought he'd apologize at least for what he's admitted to. I looked at him constantly, he didn't dare look at me," she added.
She said she did not feel hatred towards Strauss-Kahn, only contempt, and alleged that he was employing people to try to discredit her.
"I knew I'd be given a hard time, just as Nafissatou Diallo (the hotel maid) was in the United States. That's what's happening, this group of public relations people is trying to get my ex-boyfriends to say that I'm unbalanced, to show my chaotic childhood, that I'm sleeping with my lawyer. In what kind of country do you attack my lawyer, my childhood my family my father in order to explain that I wasn't the victim of an attempted rape?" she added. (ANI)
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