Strauss-Kahn daughter quizzed over French author's rape claim
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July 20, 2011, Wednesday
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FRENCH officials have questioned one of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's daughters, one of his ex-wives and may question a Socialist presidential hopeful about claims the former International Monetary Fund chief tried to rape a writer.
Conflicting reports are surfacing about what the investigators have learned so far. And it's unclear whether they have enough material to take their preliminary probe closer toward a possible trial.
Strauss-Kahn is already fighting attempted rape charges in New York stemming from a May encounter with a hotel maid. Strauss-Kahn denies wrongdoing on either side of the Atlantic. A prominent Socialist politician, he was a top contender for France's presidential elections until his New York arrest in May. He then resigned from the IMF.
The latest to face questioning in France was one of his four daughters, Camille Strauss-Kahn, a Columbia University graduate student and a friend of writer Tristane Banon, who brought the French charge against Strauss-Kahn.
A judicial official said yesterday that Camille Strauss-Kahn was questioned on Monday in the French probe. Banon says Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to wrench off her clothes and shoved his fingers in her mouth and underwear as she fought him off on the floor of an apartment during a 2003 interview for her book.
Banon and her mother have been questioned, as has Strauss-Kahn's second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, who is also Banon's godmother.
Meanwhile, investigators are expected to question former Socialist chief Francois Hollande, who is seeking the party's nomination for next year's presidential elections. Banon's lawyer has said Hollande was told of the 2003 incident.
Conflicting reports are surfacing about what the investigators have learned so far. And it's unclear whether they have enough material to take their preliminary probe closer toward a possible trial.
Strauss-Kahn is already fighting attempted rape charges in New York stemming from a May encounter with a hotel maid. Strauss-Kahn denies wrongdoing on either side of the Atlantic. A prominent Socialist politician, he was a top contender for France's presidential elections until his New York arrest in May. He then resigned from the IMF.
The latest to face questioning in France was one of his four daughters, Camille Strauss-Kahn, a Columbia University graduate student and a friend of writer Tristane Banon, who brought the French charge against Strauss-Kahn.
A judicial official said yesterday that Camille Strauss-Kahn was questioned on Monday in the French probe. Banon says Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to wrench off her clothes and shoved his fingers in her mouth and underwear as she fought him off on the floor of an apartment during a 2003 interview for her book.
Banon and her mother have been questioned, as has Strauss-Kahn's second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, who is also Banon's godmother.
Meanwhile, investigators are expected to question former Socialist chief Francois Hollande, who is seeking the party's nomination for next year's presidential elections. Banon's lawyer has said Hollande was told of the 2003 incident.
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