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.

Strauss-Kahn, the IMF no all'immunitàE sprout names for his succession

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Read the picture) will not enjoy diplomatic immunity. Accepted in the Statute of the International Monetary Fund officials "in the performance of official acts in exercising their functions", but the director was in New York for personal reasons. Even the hotel at the center of the story, the Sofitel New York - where, according to the indictment, Strauss-Kahn would have raped a 32 year-old waitress - "not in the list of hotels" for selected personnel on mission, stressed by the IMF.

France shocked by the arrest of Strauss-Khan

The news of Strauss-Kahn on charges of rape has shocked France, where the head of the IMF was given as the favorite in all polls on the 2012 French presidential elections, although he had not yet resolved the reserve on its possible job. Now the possibility that Strauss-Kahn will present seems to fade out completely, even for a simple technical matter of time, as explained by Jeremie Saland, a lawyer from New York, quoted by the French website Le telegram.

Cade Strauss Kahn and even the EU countries in crisis shaking. Here are the reactions in France

Paris loses the Socialist candidate for president 2012, Brussels guide EU countries in the IMF and the crisis shaking. If the guilt of Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual harassment has yet to be ascertained, but two things are certain: his international career and political life is over and the effects of his fall will be felt not only in Paris.

While opinion leaders believe the French no longer possible candidacy for the presidential Elysee DSK 2012, in Brussels feared the effects of the decapitation of the International Monetary Fund at a key moment for the financial stability of Europe. Just yesterday, Strauss-Kahn would have to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to speak again of Greece and dissolve the last doubts of Berlin on the second loan of 60 billion euro necessary to save the government in Athens from bankruptcy.