French Accuser of #DSK Refuses to Help American Prosecution

June 12, 2011 - 12:00 am - by John Rosenthal

The lawyer for Tristane Banon, a young French novelist who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, has reaffirmed that his client will not cooperate with the prosecution of Strauss-Kahn in the United States. On Wednesday, Banon’s lawyer, David Koubbi, told the French news channel BFM, “There are obviously two cases and each case should be treated in isolation, according to the laws of the country in question.” Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF, is accused of having sexually assaulted a chamber maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14.

Koubbi made his comments one day after a lawyer for the maid appealed for help in remarks broadcast on the French television channel, France 2. “If there are any women out there, whether in France or in Africa, who have been sexually assaulted or sexually abused by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I ask them please to call me, contact me. … We want to talk with them,” lawyer Kenneth Thompson said.

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