After spending three nights in a cell of 12 square meters in the dangerous prison Rikers Island in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn will prepare his trial out of jail. A New York judge on Thursday granted bail after imposing the toughest conditions: one million dollars cash bond and a deposit of five million, the obligation to live, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with an electronic bracelet and under the continuous surveillance of an armed guard, in addition, pay Strauss-Kahn's own pocket.
In fact, after the hearing, DSK returned to jail to spend his last night in jail in order to allow time for the lawyers and the prosecutor to prepare all the conditions accepted. Thus, lawyers and former managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) convinced the judge that until Sunday the preferred candidate to replace the French in 2012, Sarkozy will not run in New York.
For that showed, among other things, the lease of a flat DSK's wife, Anne Sinclair, the French billionaire and renowned journalist, has already signed in Manhattan. The prosecutor disagreed, describing DSK-present in the room, wearing a light blue shirt and an olive green suit, haggard and tired as a person of "compulsive behavior." Also his wife and a daughter, who lives in New York, followed the light in the room.
It is, therefore, a small victory for the famous criminal lawyers defending the former head of the IMF and they face from now, a true legal battle that has already begun: on Thursday, a jury composed of 20 people randomly selected New York decided that the evidence adduced by the prosecution are sufficient to charge of attempted rape DSK a cleaner in a hotel suite Sofico in New York.
On Wednesday, the same jury heard testimony from the cleaner, which, according to his lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, insists that at no time had consensual sex and yes an attempted rape by Strauss-Kahn to which she resisted . According to the American press, there are other elements prosecutors: DNA tests have revealed, it seems, traces of scratches on the back of DSK, leading to think in a fight.
The police also looks at a piece of the carpet in the room where the waitress, according to his testimony, he spat after DSK forced her to perform fellatio. For its part, DSK, in a letter sent Thursday morning to the IMF announcing his resignation, denies the accusations and says it is willing to use all his energy and time to prove his innocence.
Little by little they learned more things in the case: when the maid entered the hotel on Saturday to clean the hotel suite Sofico number 2806, found the door ajar and there was a third person, as revealed in Le Figaro. It is a waiter who, at that time, removed the silverware on a table.
According to a source of Sofico hotel, the waiter told the cleaner that could get in, the room was empty. The woman entered, pushing a cart with cleaning products, and the waiter was gone. Soon after, according to the complaint, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked and tried to rape the maid.
The third witness may provide several crucial elements. Among others, the exact time that it happened. The Strauss-Kahn attorneys have argued that there are certain inconsistencies in the police report in this regard. In principle, it seemed that the hotel's security cameras had recorded the output of women in the room.
According to Le Figaro, those cameras are only on the ground floor in the lobby, not in the guest room corridors. Meanwhile, in France, which is the case shocked even knocked out by printing until Sunday to see the most promising politician accused of rape in the dock, they begin to gauge the political consequences of the early fall of former and President of the International Monetary Fund.
According to two surveys that appeared yesterday, the biggest beneficiary of the fall of DSK is his party colleague, former first secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), François Hollande, and declared candidate for the primaries to be held in autumn.
In fact, after the hearing, DSK returned to jail to spend his last night in jail in order to allow time for the lawyers and the prosecutor to prepare all the conditions accepted. Thus, lawyers and former managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) convinced the judge that until Sunday the preferred candidate to replace the French in 2012, Sarkozy will not run in New York.
For that showed, among other things, the lease of a flat DSK's wife, Anne Sinclair, the French billionaire and renowned journalist, has already signed in Manhattan. The prosecutor disagreed, describing DSK-present in the room, wearing a light blue shirt and an olive green suit, haggard and tired as a person of "compulsive behavior." Also his wife and a daughter, who lives in New York, followed the light in the room.
It is, therefore, a small victory for the famous criminal lawyers defending the former head of the IMF and they face from now, a true legal battle that has already begun: on Thursday, a jury composed of 20 people randomly selected New York decided that the evidence adduced by the prosecution are sufficient to charge of attempted rape DSK a cleaner in a hotel suite Sofico in New York.
On Wednesday, the same jury heard testimony from the cleaner, which, according to his lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, insists that at no time had consensual sex and yes an attempted rape by Strauss-Kahn to which she resisted . According to the American press, there are other elements prosecutors: DNA tests have revealed, it seems, traces of scratches on the back of DSK, leading to think in a fight.
The police also looks at a piece of the carpet in the room where the waitress, according to his testimony, he spat after DSK forced her to perform fellatio. For its part, DSK, in a letter sent Thursday morning to the IMF announcing his resignation, denies the accusations and says it is willing to use all his energy and time to prove his innocence.
Little by little they learned more things in the case: when the maid entered the hotel on Saturday to clean the hotel suite Sofico number 2806, found the door ajar and there was a third person, as revealed in Le Figaro. It is a waiter who, at that time, removed the silverware on a table.
According to a source of Sofico hotel, the waiter told the cleaner that could get in, the room was empty. The woman entered, pushing a cart with cleaning products, and the waiter was gone. Soon after, according to the complaint, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked and tried to rape the maid.
The third witness may provide several crucial elements. Among others, the exact time that it happened. The Strauss-Kahn attorneys have argued that there are certain inconsistencies in the police report in this regard. In principle, it seemed that the hotel's security cameras had recorded the output of women in the room.
According to Le Figaro, those cameras are only on the ground floor in the lobby, not in the guest room corridors. Meanwhile, in France, which is the case shocked even knocked out by printing until Sunday to see the most promising politician accused of rape in the dock, they begin to gauge the political consequences of the early fall of former and President of the International Monetary Fund.
According to two surveys that appeared yesterday, the biggest beneficiary of the fall of DSK is his party colleague, former first secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), François Hollande, and declared candidate for the primaries to be held in autumn.
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