The woman writer who accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attacking her appeared on prime-time TV across France on Monday night to claim: “If I had not been very lucky, it would have ended in a rape.”
Tristane Banon’s broadcast came 24 hours after the former International Monetary Fund boss broke his silence about two alleged sex crimes.
In a television interview, the 62-year-old said that both Banon, 32, and Nafissatou Diallo, a 32-year-old New York chamber maid who accused him of attacking her in May, were liars.
But appearing on Canal+ television news, Banon explained why she filed a formal complaint in July alleging that Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in a Paris flat eight years ago.
“My light-heartedness: I lost it on February 11th 2003,” she said.
“This man made me come to a flat...for an interview. He double locked, leaving the keys in the door.
“Very quickly, we were fighting, it turned bad. If I had not been very lucky, it would have ended in a rape.”
Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May for allegedly attacking Diallo.The case collapsed after his lawyers successfully claimed his sexual relations with her had been consensual.
Paris prosecutors have not decided whether or not to charge him over Banon’s accusations. - Daily Mail