u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 1 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/nyregion/maid-picks-imf-chief
By MOSI SECRET
Published: May 15, 2011
* Recommend
* Twitter
* Sign In to E-Mail
* Print
*
Reprints
* ShareClose
o Linkedin
o Digg
o MySpace
o Permalink
o
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund, spent
most of Sunday at the Manhattan Special Victims Unit in East Harlem as
prosecutors sought additional evidence, including possible DNA evidence on
his skin or beneath his fingernails, to bolster allegations that he had
sexually assaulted a maid in a $3,000-a-night suite at a Midtown hotel,
officials said.
Related
*
I.M.F. Names New Leader (May 16, 2011)
*
Soul-Searching in France After Official’s Arrest Jolts Nation (May 16
, 2011)
*
With Europe in Crisis, Fragile Time for I.M.F. (May 16, 2011)
*
I.M.F. Chief, Apprehended at Airport, Is Accused of Sexual Attack (May
15, 2011)
Shortly before 11 p.m., Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, wearing a black jacket and
pants and a gray shirt, and looking haggard, was taken from the Special
Victims Unit, near the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge, in handcuffs.
About an hour before that, his lawyers, William Taylor and Benjamin Brafman,
emerged from Manhattan Criminal Court in Lower Manhattan and announced that
Mr. Strauss-Kahn had agreed to “a scientific forensic examination tonight.
” Mr. Taylor, who described his client as “tired but fine,” provided no
other details but said that Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arraignment would not take
place until Monday, nearly 48 hours after he was taken off an Air France
plane at Kennedy International Airport just as it was to take off for Paris
on Saturday afternoon.
The long wait for Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arraignment unfolded as an
international corps of reporters, photographers and camera crews were
deployed both in East Harlem and at Criminal Court. Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s
accuser picked him out of a lineup and new details emerged on how he came to
be taken into custody.
The authorities said they had moved to obtain a court order granting them a
search warrant to examine Mr. Strauss-Kahn for signs of injury that he might
have suffered during a struggle or for traces of his accuser’s DNA.
“Things like getting things from under the fingernails,” a law enforcement
official explained, “the classic things you get in association with a sex
assault.”
The official, who insisted on anonymity because the investigation was
continuing, added that since the authorities believed there was a high
likelihood that Mr. Strauss-Kahn would be allowed to post bail,
investigators feared that he might leave the country with whatever clues his
person might yield.
As the court order was being sought, the woman who told the police on
Saturday that she had been attacked by Mr. Strauss-Kahn identified him in
the lineup, the police said.
After identifying Mr. Strauss-Kahn about 4:30 p.m., the woman, a maid at the
Sofitel New York on West 44th Street, where Mr. Strauss-Kahn was a guest,
left the Special Victims Unit in a police van. A blanket was covering her
head.
The police were called to the hotel about 1:30 on Saturday, but when they
arrived, Mr. Strauss-Kahn had already checked out. At some point, Mr.
Strauss-Kahn called the hotel and said that his cellphone was missing.
Police detectives then coached hotel employees to tell him, falsely, that
they had the telephone, according to the law enforcement official. Mr.
Strauss-Kahn said he was at Kennedy Airport and about to get on a plane.
The police have provided few details about the woman at the center of the
case beyond saying she was 32 and an African immigrant.
According to the law enforcement official, the woman entered Mr. Strauss-
Kahn’s suite early Saturday afternoon by saying “housekeeping.” She heard
no answer and believed that the suite was unoccupied. She left the door
open behind her, as is hotel policy.
She went to the bedroom and a naked man rushed from the bathroom to the
bedroom. She apologized, the law enforcement official said, and tried to
leave.
But according to the official, the man chased her, grabbed her and shut the
door, locking it. He then pulled her toward the bedroom, the official said,
and tried to attack her there.
He dragged her to the bathroom, the official added, and forced her to
perform oral sex. The police said the woman eventually escaped from the
suite and reported the attack to other hotel personnel, who called 911.
The woman lives in the Bronx with a daughter who is in her teens. The
building’s superintendent said she moved in a few months ago.
“They’re good people,” said one neighbor, another African immigrant. “
Every time I see her I’m happy because we’re both from Africa. She’s
never given a problem for nobody. Never noisy. Everything nice.”
At the Sofitel New York, a maid, who refused to give her name, described the
woman as friendly. “In the world, she is a good person,” she said.
The maid added that her superiors had asked other hotel employees not to
question the woman about what happened.
“The office said, ‘Don’t ask too much because she is sad,’ ” the maid
said. “Just give her a hug when she comes back.”
A guest at the hotel, Mortem Meier, 36, a sales director visiting from
Norway, said the livery driver who drove Mr. Strauss-Kahn to Kennedy Airport
was also his driver on Saturday night.
“He said Strauss-Kahn was in a huge hurry,” Mr. Meier recalled. “He
wanted to leave as soon as possible. He looked upset and stressed, the
driver said.”
At Criminal Court downtown on Sunday, crowds of reporters kept watch
throughout the day for Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arraignment, sitting through
dozens of more prosaic cases involving offenses like subway fare jumping,
marijuana possession and, in one instance, charges of possession of a stun
gun.
Journalists began arriving at the courthouse in the morning and their
numbers increased as the day went on. By the time the night court session
broke for dinner at 9, more than 60 reporters — many working for French
newspapers, television stations and wire services — had assembled and were
taking up most of the space on the long wooden benches that lined the rear
of the courtroom.
Ira Judelson, a bail bondsman involved in the case, said earlier in the day
that a comprehensive bail package would establish specifics of where Mr.
Strauss-Kahn would stay as the case proceeded. He added that the bail amount
could be in the millions of dollars.
Mr. Brafman, a prominent New York criminal lawyer, has represented the hip-
hop impresario Sean Combs, the Manhattan jeweler Jacob Arabov and Plaxico
Burress, the New York Giants wide receiver.
Reporting was contributed by Al Baker, John Eligon, Joseph Goldstein, Colin
Moynihan, William K. Rashbaum, Nate Schweber and Rebecca White. | u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 2 "The police have provided few details about the woman at the center of the
case beyond saying she was 32 and an African immigrant. " | B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 3 看来是法国倒的鬼？法国在非洲的苗裔不少
【在 u***r 的大作中提到】
: "The police have provided few details about the woman at the center of the
: case beyond saying she was 32 and an African immigrant. "
|
|
