PARIS (AFP) - a French writer filed a complaint alleging that former IMF leader and political leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her about eight years, his lawyer said Tuesday.
In a note to a single word, David Koubbi "confirmed" to AFP that he had sent a complaint by his client, aged 32 years Tristane Banon, Paris prosecutors which, under French law, will now be decide to launch a criminal investigation.
Complaint of Banon, which relates to an alleged assault of 2003 on Strauss-Kahn, came just as the Socialist heart of 62 years hoped to shake a charge of attempted rape previous to the United States.
The Economist had been charged with attempted rape, abduction and sexual assault of a hotel in New York City cleaner, but the case of the alleged victim has been weakened by the admission of the prosecution that he doubted his honesty.
Strauss-Kahn American lawyers hope he will soon be deleted in this case, but if he returns to the House of France, he now faces the prospect of a second inquiry far more earlier alleged assault.
It is in turn could overshadow all hope, he had to return to the first French political line, having already been favorite defeat pollsters outgoing centre-right leader Nicolas Sarkozy in the race for the presidency next year.
But in a brief exchange with the press French network i-Tele, Koubbit insisted that he had "no intention what in fact a case policy."
Banon had already publicly accused Strauss-Kahn, to try to force himself on his "like a chimpanzee rut", but said that it was satisfied at the time, that person would take his word against the powerful politician if it brought an action.
Strauss-Kahn is still formally charged and awaits trial in New York, but a judge released him from house arrest last week after prosecutors expressed doubts about the credibility of the accuser.
US media reported Tuesday that prosecutors were about to drop the charges.
Banon, a writer and French journalist, told the express weekly magazine that "seeing Strauss-Kahn released then after dinner in a restaurant in fantasy with friends, which makes me sick."
She repeated her account of the alleged attack in 2003, saying that Strauss-Kahn had his hands in my pants."after he is pulling my jeans and BRA
She added: "eight years ago, when I spoke to file a complaint, everyone made me believe that this would lead nowhere." In the matter it is word of one person against the other. »
When the complaint of Banon is received by the prosecutors, they must decide if there are grounds to initiate an investigation which could lead to formal charges.
Some allies of Strauss-Kahn in the French opposition Socialist Party have suggested that he might return to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election of the next year if it is disabled in the case of New York.
Some supporters of Strauss-Kahn has alleged that the arrest was a set-up.
Banon legal action complicates the prospects of him returning to the glory and prompted embarrassing questions for the Socialists who, Banon, knew his test alleged at the time and did nothing.
She said the former Socialist Party leader François Hollande, currently polling as the main Socialist presidential candidate, was aware of the charges, but he insisted that he had "no detailed knowledge" of the alleged incident.
France, an attempt of rape is punishable by 15 years in prison.
Counsel for Strauss - Kahn Henri Leclerc and Frederique Baulieu Banon dismissed as "imaginary" and has threatened to sue him for defamation.
She first publicly alleged the meeting with Strauss-Kahn in a string of broadcast television in 2007, saying: it rejected the politician to his.
His Socialist allies of mark opportunistic Banon.
"Tristane Banon was telling this story for years.". Now, it brings a complaint, ", said Jean-Marie Le Guen Parliament." "Clearly some people are not happy about the return of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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