{"id":110865,"date":"2011-07-05T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110865"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T06:10:00","slug":"french-writer-tristane-banon-to-sue-strauss-kahn-for-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/05\/french-writer-tristane-banon-to-sue-strauss-kahn-for-attempted-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"French Writer Tristane Banon to Sue Strauss-Kahn for Attempted Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

A French writer is set to launch legal action for attempted rape against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, just days after he was released from house arrest in New York on sexual assault charges, AFP reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tristane Banon, 32, indicated she would send “a complaint for attempted rape” against Strauss-Kahn to prosecutors, likely on Tuesday, her lawyer David Koubbi told the news magazine L’Express on its website.<\/p>\n

Koubbi told AFPTV that Banon “took that decision because she endured what she accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of and in France as elsewhere when you are a victim of an attempted rape, you must file a complaint.”<\/p>\n

The French writer and journalist herself told the L’Express website that “seeing Strauss-Kahn freed (from house arrest) then afterward dining in a fancy restaurant with friends, that makes me sick.”<\/p>\n

Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers hit back by threatening Banon, who once branded the former IMF chief a “rutting chimpanzee”, with a defamation suit.<\/p>\n

Strauss-Kahn, who resigned from his IMF post after being charged with sexual assault in New York, dismissed Banon’s claims as “imaginary”, his lawyers Henri Leclerc and Frederique Baulieu told AFP in a statement.<\/p>\n

They said they “were in the process of compiling a libel complaint against her.”<\/p>\n

The prospect of a fresh criminal complaint against Strauss-Kahn came as the case in New York, where he was recently released from house arrest on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid, looked set to collapse after prosecutors revealed they had doubts about the credibility of his accuser.<\/p>\n

Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers said Banon’s complaint “comes at a time when the untruthful nature of the accusations he faces in the United States are no longer in any doubt.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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