Kriti Mehrotra. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit Email. Loading Comments He was arrested onboard a plane back to France, minutes before the flight was set to leave, and indicted on charges including attempted rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment, and forcible touching. Mr Strauss-Kahn pleaded not guilty at the trial. The trial and eventual financial settlement would dominate newspaper headlines for months.
Mr Strauss-Kahn resigned from his position as head of the International Monetary Fund, and his rumoured hopes for running as President of France were abandoned. Read more: DSK sex charges 'to be dropped'. But this week, Ms Diallo again recalled her account of the incident. In the corridor, I asked my colleague if room was free. She said yes. No-one replied. I therefore entered, leaving the door ajar. Suite is very big. I was just about to go into the bedroom, when I saw this naked man appear.
And when it was over, I ran away, spitting all over the place. Video surveillance footage from the hotel at the time appears to show Ms Diallo leaving room after the assault is said to have taken place, and recounting the incident to the hotel security staff.
Mr Strauss-Kahn initially said that sex with Ms Diallo was consensual. Nafissatou Diallo was working as a maid at the Sofitel New York Hotel when the then French presidential hopeful, who was 62 at the time, allegedly tried to rape her in May Nine years on, speaking of the alleged assault to French magazine Paris Match , Diallo said it had 'ruined her life,' and added that if Dominique Strauss-Kahn often referred to as DSK had been poor, he would be in prison. The criminal lawsuit against Strauss-Kahn was dismissed in August by the prosecution on the basis that Diallo had not been truthful 'on matters great and small.
Diallo received a settlement a year later for an undisclosed amount after the civil suit was dropped, and has not spoken publicly about the allegations since She has opened up about the ordeal in a new interview with French Magazine Paris Match. Diallo told the French magazine the way the New York prosecutors treated her made her 'suicidal. Due to what they put me through, I've been suicidal, I was called a prostitute,' she added.
Diallo said she received death threats and had to move out of her apartment to a safe house outside of New York during the legal proceedings against DSK, which lasted from May to August Charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped after the New York prosecution said Diallo had been 'untruthful' on several occasions, changing her story several times pictured: DSK in Yet, she said she did not regret reporting the politician to the police. I would do exactly the same thing. Something happened to me, I told the truth and I was denied justice,' she said.
I don't want to think about him anymore,' she said. She said: 'I assure you, if [Mr Strauss-Kahn] had been poor, homeless, a tramp, he would be in prison today. Diallo, pictured with her attorney Kenneth P. Thompson left in , said the ordeal 'ruined her life' after she received death threats. Looking to the future, Diallo said she was hoping to help other women like her.
She meant, of course, not before the incident in the Sofitel. The prostitution allegation, as much as—maybe even more than—the possibility of a collapsed prosecution, is, based on what she said to Newsweek , driving her decisions now:. I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money. A job that seems to have mattered was as a hotel housekeeper. She talked a lot to Newsweek about the number of rooms she was able to clean in a shift, and how much she likes her co-workers there.
When Strauss-Kahn attacked her, according to her account,. But she can narrate her story, and she can show her face.
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