French writer Tristane Banon says she is considering filing a complaint of sexual assault over a 2002 incident. Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, was born in Tehran to an Iranian father and Belgian Mother.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who had been seen as a contender in France’s 2012 presidential election, is appearing at a New York court. He denies the charges. His courthearing was delayed to allow forensic tests to be carried out.
NowFrench writer Tristane Banon says she is considering filing a complaint of sexual assault over a 2002 incident. Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, a French politician from Strauss-Kahn’s own party, advised her daughter not to file a complaint at the time as she feared it would harm her career. Anne Mansouret was born in Tehranon 14th of November 1945 to an Iranian father and Belgian Mother and got her French nationality at the age of 21. (More on her Profile Here)
The Official Website of Anne Mansouret Here
New Allegation Emerges:
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Interviews of Anne Mansouret
and daughter Tristane Banon
Who claims to have been sexually
aggressed by DSK
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Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who had been seen as a contender in France’s 2012 presidential election, is appearing at a New York court. He denies the charges.
His court hearing was delayed to allow forensic tests to be carried out.
Now French writer Tristane Banon says she is considering filing a complaint of sexual assault over a 2002 incident.
The European Union says the scandal surrounding Mr Strauss-Kahn should not affect bail-outs for eurozone countries. The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has played a central role in organising rescue packages for the troubled economies of Portugal and Greece.
Allegation resurfaces
MsBanon, 31, says she was assaulted by Mr Strauss-Kahn when she went to interview him for an article she was writing.
“We’re planning to make a complaint. I am working with her,” Ms Banon’s lawyer David Koubbi told the AFP news agency. Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have so far not responded to the allegation.
According to Ms Banon’s version of events, Mr Strauss-Kahn said he would only speak to her if she held his hand.
He then touched her more and more intimately, and in the end she had to fight him off, she said.
Ms Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret, herself a politician from Mr Strauss-Kahn’s centre-left Socialist Party, said she persuaded her daughter not to file acomplaint at the time.
“I just want to say that the only reason she didn’t press charges at the time is because I convinced her not to, because I thought it was better for her,”Ms Mansouret told French state TV.
Ms Mansouret says she now regrets this advice.
Ms Banon raised the allegation in a TV discussion programme in 2007, but Mr Strauss-Kahn’s name was bleeped out during the broadcast.
Tristane Banon hinted on a French talk show about DSK being Horny and Sexually obssessed (English Subtitles):
Anne Mansouret mother of Tristane Banot claims daughter was sexually aggressed by DSK in 2002:
Interview On I-Télé:
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