Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned from the post of chief operating officer of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), six days after the dramatic arrest on charges of rape, molestation and kidnapping. The resignation came just hours before the hearing where lawyers for DSK will submit a new request for bail after the first Monday had been rejected by the courts.
Today's hearing will be before another judge than the one who ordered his imprisonment. This was confirmed by the official spokesman of the Office of Prosecutors in New York, Erin Duggan. CNN reported that the new hearing against Strauss-Kahn should be convened for 14:15 on Thursday (the 20:15 in Italy).
In their request for freedom, defenders of Strauss-Kahn proposed a deposit of one million dollars, and the maintenance of the detention in Manhattan for their client, who agrees to be monitored 24 hours 24. A Dominique Strauss-Kahn should therefore be applied to an electronic bracelet. In the letter of cancellation sent to the IMF Executive Board, the 62enne top executives reaffirmed "the more firmly as possible" his innocence, saying he was ready to fight all the way to prove it.
"E 'with infinite sadness that today I feel compelled to submit to the Executive Council to resign from my post of chief operating officer of the Fund," Strauss-Kahn wrote in the letter. "I want to protect this institution that I served with honor and devotion, and especially," he insists, "especially, I want to dedicate all my strength, all my time and all my energy to prove my innocence." The interim charge to the Fund will be assumed by John Lipsky number two, but for the pole in succession, there would be French finance minister, Christine Lagarde.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, reiterated that the new director must be European and the EU has said it is ready to present "a strong candidate." Despite the gravity of the charges, the French Socialist Party has called for Nicolas Sarkozy, of which Strauss-Kahn in a year could be the challenger, to be active in the first person to obtain his release.
The number two in the PSF, Harlem Desir, said that Sarkozy had intervened in the past in other cases involving "French citizens involved in legal proceedings abroad." Rather harsh words for President of the National Front, the French far-right party, Marine Le Pen, who has accused President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialist Party (PS) have turned a blind eye on the behavior "almost pathological" Dominique Strauss -Kahn for their political interest.
"The entire political class and journalists muttering not so much on the behavior of incorrigible seducer, but the behavior of molester Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Le Pen said in an interview with RMC / BFM TV - and some of his political opponents knew that this almost pathological behavior could be an advantage for them in view of the campaign for presidential elections.
" In reference to Sarkozy, the President of the Fn considered "Machiavellian head of the IMF to appoint a man known to be the only reputatazione to get rid of a political opponent with the risk that break a case like this that demeans our country in the eyes the whole world. " Marine Le Pen has also harshly criticized the representatives of the Ps that "knowing what they refer to frailty and illnesses that others like me call it, were ready to bring this man to the head of the French state." Investigators are trying to determine why it spent about an hour before the 'Sofitel' Manhattan had called the police.
It seems virtually certain that the alleged victim felt almost immediately colleagues and superiors of the incident. According to confidential sources of the French police, in the suite of DSK was another waiter on the morning of Saturday, before you enter the waitress Famotidine Ophelia, 32, originally from Ghana.
According to the same sources, the waiter had gone to "pick up the breakfast tray and why Ophelia found the" door ajar ", which is why the woman opened it and was told the other employee of the hotel that" could enter the room to put in order. " Ophelia then went to get the truck with the tools and "returned to the room" while his colleague as "went".
So far, the American investigators believe the woman had entered seemed to think that there was no one in the suite while in reality Strauss-Kahn was having a shower at the other end of the compartment over the entrance. The same sources added that the Sofitel is equipped with surveillance cameras, but "only in the lobby and the first and second floor, where there are rooms for meetings and conferences." There are not "in the corridors, rooms and suites" There would be pictures in a position to clarify what really happened.
Meanwhile, the U.S. media continue to dig into the past of DSK. The Telegraph has collected the testimony of Kristin Billie Davis, aka "Manhattan Madam" (the woman ended up in prison in U.S. for having set up an international prostitution ring by 5 million dollars a year) that the former director Fund would would meet with the professional escort.
The woman, writes the Telegraph, claims to have provided "women" in Strauss-Kahn in New York in 2006, when the politician was running for the Socialist candidacy to the French presidency. Strauss-Kahn had personally phoned the woman on her cell phone and paid $ 1,200 in cash for "sessions of two hours" at the hotel.
Davis, defined by the New York tabloids "dell'escort Empress", is the founder of Wicked Models agency. Came to have up to 140 girls and a call center that employed ten employees. Among the regulars - she says - even the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, crushed in 2008 by a sex scandal that, in fact, place and cost him his career.
Following that incident Kristin Davis closed the agency and faced four months in prison. 
Today's hearing will be before another judge than the one who ordered his imprisonment. This was confirmed by the official spokesman of the Office of Prosecutors in New York, Erin Duggan. CNN reported that the new hearing against Strauss-Kahn should be convened for 14:15 on Thursday (the 20:15 in Italy).
In their request for freedom, defenders of Strauss-Kahn proposed a deposit of one million dollars, and the maintenance of the detention in Manhattan for their client, who agrees to be monitored 24 hours 24. A Dominique Strauss-Kahn should therefore be applied to an electronic bracelet. In the letter of cancellation sent to the IMF Executive Board, the 62enne top executives reaffirmed "the more firmly as possible" his innocence, saying he was ready to fight all the way to prove it.
"E 'with infinite sadness that today I feel compelled to submit to the Executive Council to resign from my post of chief operating officer of the Fund," Strauss-Kahn wrote in the letter. "I want to protect this institution that I served with honor and devotion, and especially," he insists, "especially, I want to dedicate all my strength, all my time and all my energy to prove my innocence." The interim charge to the Fund will be assumed by John Lipsky number two, but for the pole in succession, there would be French finance minister, Christine Lagarde.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, reiterated that the new director must be European and the EU has said it is ready to present "a strong candidate." Despite the gravity of the charges, the French Socialist Party has called for Nicolas Sarkozy, of which Strauss-Kahn in a year could be the challenger, to be active in the first person to obtain his release.
The number two in the PSF, Harlem Desir, said that Sarkozy had intervened in the past in other cases involving "French citizens involved in legal proceedings abroad." Rather harsh words for President of the National Front, the French far-right party, Marine Le Pen, who has accused President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialist Party (PS) have turned a blind eye on the behavior "almost pathological" Dominique Strauss -Kahn for their political interest.
"The entire political class and journalists muttering not so much on the behavior of incorrigible seducer, but the behavior of molester Dominique Strauss-Kahn - Le Pen said in an interview with RMC / BFM TV - and some of his political opponents knew that this almost pathological behavior could be an advantage for them in view of the campaign for presidential elections.
" In reference to Sarkozy, the President of the Fn considered "Machiavellian head of the IMF to appoint a man known to be the only reputatazione to get rid of a political opponent with the risk that break a case like this that demeans our country in the eyes the whole world. " Marine Le Pen has also harshly criticized the representatives of the Ps that "knowing what they refer to frailty and illnesses that others like me call it, were ready to bring this man to the head of the French state." Investigators are trying to determine why it spent about an hour before the 'Sofitel' Manhattan had called the police.
It seems virtually certain that the alleged victim felt almost immediately colleagues and superiors of the incident. According to confidential sources of the French police, in the suite of DSK was another waiter on the morning of Saturday, before you enter the waitress Famotidine Ophelia, 32, originally from Ghana.
According to the same sources, the waiter had gone to "pick up the breakfast tray and why Ophelia found the" door ajar ", which is why the woman opened it and was told the other employee of the hotel that" could enter the room to put in order. " Ophelia then went to get the truck with the tools and "returned to the room" while his colleague as "went".
So far, the American investigators believe the woman had entered seemed to think that there was no one in the suite while in reality Strauss-Kahn was having a shower at the other end of the compartment over the entrance. The same sources added that the Sofitel is equipped with surveillance cameras, but "only in the lobby and the first and second floor, where there are rooms for meetings and conferences." There are not "in the corridors, rooms and suites" There would be pictures in a position to clarify what really happened.
Meanwhile, the U.S. media continue to dig into the past of DSK. The Telegraph has collected the testimony of Kristin Billie Davis, aka "Manhattan Madam" (the woman ended up in prison in U.S. for having set up an international prostitution ring by 5 million dollars a year) that the former director Fund would would meet with the professional escort.
The woman, writes the Telegraph, claims to have provided "women" in Strauss-Kahn in New York in 2006, when the politician was running for the Socialist candidacy to the French presidency. Strauss-Kahn had personally phoned the woman on her cell phone and paid $ 1,200 in cash for "sessions of two hours" at the hotel.
Davis, defined by the New York tabloids "dell'escort Empress", is the founder of Wicked Models agency. Came to have up to 140 girls and a call center that employed ten employees. Among the regulars - she says - even the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, crushed in 2008 by a sex scandal that, in fact, place and cost him his career.
Following that incident Kristin Davis closed the agency and faced four months in prison.
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