Thursday, May 19, 2011

The latest developments in the investigation

Meanwhile, investigators painstakingly trying to reconstruct the chain of events between the arrival of the alleged victim in the bedroom of the former director of the International Monetary Fund and the arrest of the French. Investigators believe that the maid was almost immediately reported the alleged assault to several colleagues.

The first call from the hotel to 911, the emergency number for police, was received at 13 h 32, according to documents cited by this source. The safety of Sofitel said she wanted to report a sexual assault. The first police teams arrived on site thirteen minutes later. For this source, there are two possible explanations for this delay of one hour.

The first is that the alleged victim was so shocked and his account of the assault was so surprising that the management of the hotel took an hour before being sure she would alert the authorities. The second option, favored by investigators is that the French management of the hotel would not rush to condemn a French client so prestigious.

Sofitel New York was not immediately available for comment. In the new application for bail filed by defense lawyers for the former Minister of Economy say their client has left the hotel at 12 pm 28 and he went to an appointment lunch "a few blocks away," about 12 h 45. According to the source close to the case, investigators believe that Strauss-Kahn called the hotel at 15 30 pm, presumably from the airport to ask if he had forgotten nothing.

The police present at the Sofitel then asked staff to request to Strauss-Kahn to clarify where he was reported to him that his mobile phone. Police have asked the Port Authority, which manages the infrastructure related to transportation in the metropolitan New York, to retain the aircraft until his arrival.

The Port Authority officials boarded the Air France plane to 16 h 30 and urged the IMF managing director to leave the camera in silence. He was then handed over to police, handcuffed and taken to a police station in Harlem. A source familiar with the matter to the agency explained that the prosecutor was referring to the case Tristane Banon, a young French journalist and writer who said in 2007 that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had sexually assaulted her in 2002.

Tristane Banon has not filed charges against Strauss-Kahn after the alleged incident. But in a message dated Monday, a lawyer representing the author indicated that this assumption was now envisaged. "This man, assigned to room service, ridding the cover after the jump. His colleague asked him if she could start cleaning," the newspaper said on its website.

"The man replied that he had finished and the suite was unoccupied, and then he left. He did not know that DSK could be in the bathroom. "The newspaper concludes that the alleged victim would then not need to introduce an access card to enter the suite and that the precise time its entry will be determined by other means.

The newspaper added that no cameras would be installed in the corridor leading to the result.

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