The French (based on the news comments I’ve seen so far) seemed convinced this is a honey trap of some sort by his political enemies. The problem with that supposition is this maid has been employed by this hotel for over 2 years with no issues. Beyond this the charge is not that he made a clumsy pass at her, but that he chased down, restrained her and molested her anally or orally. This isn’t a Kobe Bryant type scenario with a he said/she said battle over consensual sex vs rape misunderstanding. This is a straight attack.
He has a big reputation as a seductive player, if there’s more than that and he really has a track record (per the French interviewers story) of violently going after women it’s probable these stories are going to start coming out of the woodwork in France.
The question here is why a man at the apex of his career and professional power with enough resources to buy a roomful of escorts would do this. Some in this thread dismiss this aspect and say “His status doesn’t matter, he a rapist and raping and assault is what what they do.”
I think this is a bit too simple. For a person of huge reputation to assault a strange maid and effectively flush his entire professional life down the toilet means there is a break with reality going on somewhere in this person’s head. If what the maid said he did is true this wasn’t even a opportunistic assault where he had some way to have gotten away with it. This was a virtual guarantee of arrest.
If what she says proves out I suspect he will claim some sort of mental dysfunction.
Eh, see Eliot Spitzer (not that he attacked anybody, but did something completely needless and risky). Or any one of a hundred other powerful men who’ve nearly or actually flushed things away on something ridiculous. I imagine it’s some quirk of the psychology that propels guys like that to positions of power in the first place.
It could have happened, anything is possible, but…
the way she describes the attack happening is so bizarre that it’s too hard to believe based on her words that he was naked chasing her down the hall and pulled her into a room and made her blow him.
Two things are tough to accept these days:
Finding “DNA” or the dudes come in the room means nothing. I leave cum all over the place when I travel (wash clothes, towels etc…). I think most men do. Jerkin off is how we pass the time.
She says she was raped but it’s quite possible that she played along and cried rape afterwords when she realized who he was. Hell, the dude is a 63 year old geezer. I have a hard time picturing him overpowering a woman half his age, let alone running down the hall after her.
It could have happened but it’s certainly suspect.
How would this benefit her? Why would a woman trying to get through her day of cleaning rooms stop and give a BJ to a 63 year old man unless he was waving some serious dollars. IN the “she agreed” scenario I don’t see the financial upside to crying rape assuming he paid her.
Not specifically touching on this particular case, but I would be very careful about following your line of argument.
For example, one of the first steps in doing a smear job is to throw out as much shit as possible to see what sticks to the walls. It can all be 100% fabricated baloney; doesn’t matter. Some of it might be close enough to a half-truth that people will connect the dots on their own - because most people do just what Zombie did: assume that ‘well there must be at least some truth here, he must at least be guilty of something’.
Going back to the OP case: It does seem rather bizarre given the timing and such - news interviews I saw last night all noted his reputation as a seducer but violence seemed out of character (an alleged attack on Tristane Banon in 2007 notwithstanding).
That’s not at all what I’m hearing, though perhaps news comments are a better source of info than actually being in France and talking to French people. The general consensus of those I talk it is that there are too many important details being left out to figure out the story right now. Everyone agrees Sarkozy benefits from it; few believe that this sort of thing could be arranged in this manner to bring DSK down.
Banon’s mother Anne Mansouret, who is also a contender in the Socialist primary, has confirmed that Banon spoke to her about Strauss-Khan, but Mansouret, to her regret, persuaded Banon to not file a complaint. Banon, who is the god-daughter of Strauss-Khan’s second wife Brigitte Guillemette, says that she may now file a complaint. Also, socialist Aurélie Filippetti, who is a député of the Assemblée nationale (the equivalent of a Member of Parliament), says that she was groped by Strauss-Khan.
No kidding. Only on this board could a career politician with a background as a lawyer with zero work history at a bank, that has been a member of a communist party, is now a leading socialist party member, and was appointed to head the IMF, whose primary mission is to provide financial assistance to countries with poor, emerging or distressed economies be referred to as a “rich banker”. Are you people really this clueless?
63 is hardly geezer age. My dad is in his mid sixties and regularly goes canoeing in the boundary waters, which involves lifting huge canoes for long portages. Someone in his 60’s can still easily have the strength and agility to overpower another person, especially someone who has a more robust body type, as he seems to have.