Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Strauss-Kahn, the lawyers of the alleged victim "No plot, she did not know who he was"

"But do you know who this person?". According to the defense of the waitress at the Sofitel - who he accused of rape, the director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Read the portrait) - The woman at the time of violence did not know who his assailant. He would only discovered the next day on the phone with a friend.

So Jeff Shapiro, legal 32 year old Guinean, will respond at the hearing to the hypothesis of a plot against the director of the International Monetary Fund. According to French newspaper 'Le Figaro', the staff of New York would still know that the structure was a celebrity: a picture of Strauss-Kahn, told another waitress at the Sofitel, was hanging in the room where you change the clerical workers to alert.

The version of the accusation is confirmed by the brother of the maid, the first person she called after the alleged sexual assault. "I do not know who it was - said the man - and my sister is incapable of inventing such a story." "It 's a practicing Muslim and wears the veil," he explained, recalling how the woman's life is largely devoted to grow from the daughter of 15 years.

And the identity of the woman is triggered while the U.S. press. According to the 'New York Post', the maid lives with his daughter in a rented apartment in the Bronx only to adults living with HIV or AIDS or their families. Hence the doubt that the woman is HIV positive, but the same newspaper states that, because of privacy rules, you can not say for sure.

The defense of the French economist had already announced its strategy yesterday: Strauss-Kahn will declare itself innocent and will seek to demonstrate how the relationship with the waitress was consensual. "I think it will be treated fairly, because this is our responsibility," said U.S.

Senator process on whether Jeff Sessions, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Also from the U.S. while growing pressures that Strauss-Kahn leaves the guidance of the IMF. "Obviously it is not able to follow the IMF," said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Not one opinion among others, considered that the U.S.

is the largest shareholder of the international institution. And for his succession, has already opened the debate. The U.S. daily 'Financial Times' confirm the rumors that there would be among the favorites in the French economy minister, Christine Lagarde. While today the governor of the Bank of South Korea, Kim Choongsoo, and the Minister of Finance of South Africa, Pravin Gordhan, join to the request made yesterday by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, a guide choice among emerging countries.

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