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The mystery that engulfs the cases in which the former head of the International Monetary Fund Domenique Strauss Kahn is involved deepens as the prosecution in France on Thursday dropped the case brought against him by French writer Tristane Banon, leaving those who speculated about what happened to the former IMF chief to believe that he was framed by someone for some reason.
On Thursday, the French prosecution said they had to drop the case because of insufficient evidence, though they said DSK had agreed to a lesser charge of sexual assault.
Tristane Banon accused him that while he was a representative in the National Assembly, in 2003, and she was a young journalist, he had summoned her at the residence he was having in Paris, pretending that he wanted to review an interview he had previously given her.
Banon said that when she arrived at the residence, he wanted to rape her and that she got out after struggling with him. As she arrived in the street, she called her mother, which was a Socialist colleague of DKS’s, and the mother told her not to go to the police with this, so that she may not jeopardize her career in the Socialist party.
The prosecutor invoked that the statute of limitations was applying in this case, because, even though the allegations were true, the facts had happened too long ago, considering that for this kind of facts the statute of limitations was of three years, and that the case had happened 10 years ago.
DSK has always denied charges, considering them slanderous and imaginary, though during the investigation he admitted that he had tried to kiss her without her consent, which is admitting to sexual assault. However, the prosecution said, the sexual assault is not the same thing as attempted rape.
Tristane Banon said that if the French judicial system dropped her criminal case, she would file a civil case against him, just as Nafissatou Diallo, the housekeeper in New York, did after the American prosecution dropped the criminal case against him, a case that made him lose his job at the International Monetary Fund.
DSK was arrested earlier this year in New York City after a housekeeper at the Sofitel hotel file a complaint in which she said she had been attacked by the famous banker, who attempted to rape her.
DSK lost his job and appeared before the judges in a show that looked more like a media execution, only to be released a few weeks, when the former position he had left was filled by his country fellow Christine Lagarde.
As the American prosecution deepened the investigation, they realized that Diallo’s credibility would never stick in court, as evidence was gathered that she practiced prostitution.
They also found out that she had had some problems when she came from Africa and lied to the customs in order to be granted visa. Then she lied to the social services, so that she could live in a social house.
The American prosecution dropped the prosecution and DSK could return home, where he appeared on television and made an apology related to sexual aggressiveness, considered by many of his colleagues as the last act of his political career.
DSK was considered by many people in France as the candidate that had the best chances to win the next presidential election in his country. What happened to him this year has been construed by many as a setup to eliminate him from the presidential race.
The Russian foreign security services went as far as to say that he was framed by the American officials, because he had discovered that the gold in Fort Knox disappeared.

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