The Huffington Post/AP First Posted: 05/14/11 07:32 PM ET Updated: 05/14/11 09:58 PM
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was arrested and is being questioned by police after allegations of sexual assault emerged on Saturday.
The New York Post initially reported that Strauss-Kahn was removed from an Air France flight just minutes before takeoff from Kennedy Airport.
According to The New York Post, a housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn’s New York City hotel room at noon on Saturday. Sources claim that Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom and grabbed the housekeeper, forcing her to perform oral sex on him.
The New York Times later tweeted "Head of I.M.F. Arrested in New York and Accused of Sexual Attack."
Strauss-Kahn was considered a potential candidate in France's 2012 election.
The New York Times reports that Strauss-Kahn is a former economics professor, and started in the 1980's as a deputy in parliament, and then was a finance minister:
Mr. Strauss-Kahn eventually sought the socialist party’s presidential nomination himself in 2007 — calling for an “anti-Sarkozy front” — but lost to Segolene Royal. Months later he was tapped to run the I.M.F. and received Sarkozy’s support, which many critics called a strategy by Sarkozy to keep Mr. Strauss-Kahn away from the forefront of the socialist party.
Strauss-Kahn has blogged for HuffPost.
The Associated Press reports:
NEW YORK — The leader of the International Monetary Fund and candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with a sexual assault of a maid at a hotel, police said.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a candidate for president of France, was taken off the Air France flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and was turned over to police Saturday afternoon, said Paul J. Browne, New York Police Department spokesman.
He was being questioned by the NYPD special victims office. No charges have yet been filed.
The 32-year-old woman told authorities that she entered Strauss-Kahn's room at the Sofitel near Manhattan's Times Square at about 1 p.m. Saturday and he emerged from the bedroom naked, threw her down and tried to sexually assault her, Browne said. She somehow broke free and escaped the room and told hotel staff what had happened, authorities said. They called police.
When New York City police detectives arrived moments later, Strauss-Kahn had already left the hotel, leaving behind his cellphone and other personal items, Browne said. "It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.
The NYPD discovered he was at the airport and contacted the Port Authority, who plucked Kahn from the Air France flight that had not yet departed. It wasn't immediately clear if the 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn had been planning to leave Saturday afternoon, police said.
The maid was taken by police to an area hospital. John Sheehan, a spokesman for the hotel, said its staff was cooperating with the authorities in the investigation.
William Murray, a spokesman for the IMF in Washington, said the IMF had no immediate comment on the reports of Strauss-Kahn's arrest.
Strauss-Kahn, rejected by the French Socialists as their presidential candidate in 2006, gained international recognition as France's finance minister in 1997-99.
He is credited with preparing France for the adoption of the euro by taming its deficit and persuading then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to sign up to an EU pact of fiscal prudence.
A former economics professor, Strauss-Kahn joined the Socialist party in 1976 and was elected to parliament in 1986 from the Val-d'Oise district, north of Paris. He went on to become mayor of Sarcelles, a working-class immigrant suburb of Paris.
His first government post was industry minister under former President Francois Mitterrand. As finance minister, he reduced France's debt repayments through a raft of privatizations including the sale of shares in France Telecom SA and Air France.
Strauss-Kahn is a married father of four. His third wife, Anne Sinclair, is a former television presenter.
They say that Strauss Kahn was a flight risk and that he left his hotel in a hurry after the attack to make him look guilty, but they can't explain why he called the hotel to inform them that he had forgotten his cell phone and they can't explain why he told the hotel security that he was at the airport on his way to France for an important meeting with the German chancellor. If Strauss Kahn would have raped the maid and if he would have been guilty, he would have never called the hotel to ask about his cell phone. He would have left to France quickly without calling anyone or saying where he was because France does not have extradition laws and he would be safe. Strauss Kahn knows the law because he used to be a high priced lawyer.
ReplyDeleteI think the maid consented to sex because she didn’t tell Strauss-Kahn she was HIV positive to stop him from making sexual advancements. Suppose everything she said was true, that doesn't get rid of the fact that she knew she had a deadly virus and she didn't inform him, so he could stop and she could prevent him from becoming HIV positive. She probably didn’t have sex with a man in the last twelve years and was turned on by the seducer Strauss-Kahn, so she kept quite about her illness and enjoyed herself while murdering Strauss-Kahn with HIV. It’s a criminal act not to inform a sex partner about being HIV positive. If she wins the criminal trail, she may have to face trial her self for attempted murder. Everyone knows that her husband died of HIV in Guinea and the HIV epidemic is widespread there. It’s only obvious she has HIV because she lives in an apartment complex specifically for HIV patients. If Strauss-Kahn had sex with his wife when he got out of Rikers jail then he probably infected his wife with HIV. If he did get HIV, he should blame himself for having contracted HIV for not being more selective with the women he has sex with. Donald Trump always had sex with beauty pageant winners who were clean. For a man of his wealth, he should have picked more attractive and cleaner women. I also think she lied to the police because she said the door of the hotel was locked from the inside and that’s not true because it can only be locked to a person from the outside. She should have called the front desk with her cell phone to ask for help or she should have scratched his face or yelled for help. She said she was forced to give him a BJ, but that is odd because why would Strauss-Kahn trust a woman with sharp teeth if he is attacking her. Strauss-Kahn is a high priced lawyer and he knows it’s against the law to rape a woman. She was aware of the fact that a man who can afford to pay $3000.00 a night for a hotel room is probably wealthy and she wanted to sue him or the Sofia hotel to get out of her poverty which I heard was really bad. If the Sofia hotel really were a luxury hotel they should have at least hired people from more prestigious backgrounds unless they were underpaying her and working her like a mule. I wouldn’t pay $3000.00 a night if an HIV maid was tampering around in my bathroom. What if she had a cut on her hand and blood fell on the toilet seat or on my clean towels?
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