DNA Match in Strauss-Kahn Case | Police Report Details from FOX
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RedTracker| Strauss-Kahn DNA Matches Semen on Maid’s Shirt WSJ
DNA tests have confirmed a positive match between former International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and semen found on the shirt of the hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by DSK.
Investigators are still waiting for the lab results of carpet samples and swabs taken from the hotel sink.
The maid reportedly spit in the sink after she told hotel security that she had been attacked, reports the NY Daily News.
FOX News writes that law enforcement sources close to the investigation say the maid reports that DSK said to her ‘Don’t you know who I am! Don’t you know who I am?’ while pinning her down during the alleged sexual assault.
FOX News is the first media outlet we’ve seen release very specific commentary from the maid’s statements to the police. Is is possible that the maid recounted these statements before the grand jury.
FOX reports there are blood-stained sheets that were also taken in the evidence collected in the room.
The maid said she tried a variety of tactics to get herself out of the room and away from Strauss-Kahn. She said, “my manager is in the hallway,” which he wasn’t — but the former IMF chief wasn’t scared off. The single mother allegedly told the Frenchman that the job was important to her and any conflict with a hotel guest would result in her losing her job.
“Please stop. I need my job, I can’t lose my job, don’t do this. I will lose my job. Please, please stop! Please stop!” she told Strauss-Kahn, according to law enforcement sources.
Strauss-Kahn allegedly responded: “No, baby. Don’t worry, you’re not going to lose your job. Please, baby, don’t worry,” Strauss-Kahn responded, according to investigators. “Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know who I am?”
Ben Brafman, an attorney for Strauss-Kahn, said he can’t comment. Erin Duggan, spokeswoman for New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, also declined comment.
FOX continues with more details, saying that when the maid pushed DSK away and ran toward the door, that’s when he forced her to service him with oral sex. In another stunning detail that works against a claim of consensual sex, the maid pushed DSK into the sharp edge of an armoire. ‘Sources said the Frenchman has a gash on his back where he hit the armoire’, writes FOX.
On Saturday, May 14, sources said the Sofitel hotel maid followed hotel protocol, knocking three times while yelling “housekeeping” at increasingly loud volume before finally ringing the doorbell. There was no answer from inside the room, and it was after noon checkout time. Sources said the former IMF chief now indicted on sexual assault charges did not request a late checkout and should not have been in his room, which he’d rented for one night.
FOX reports yet another allegation that we won’t publish.
Curbing French Men’s Powers of ‘Seduction’
Strauss-Kahn New York Case May Curb Libertine Ways of Powerful French Men Bloomberg
With ‘friends’ like Bloomberg writing these words, who needs nonfriends. The DSK case is emboldening women in France to:
… challenge the modern-day version of France’s “droit de cuissage,” a feudal practice giving masters the right to have sex with female servants. It’s prompting introspection in the media over whether its laissez-faire attitude toward private lives of those in power helps them act with impunity.
“Since power is often thought of as an aphrodisiac, there was a sort of acceptance of men’s excesses toward women,” said Rachel Mulot, a member of a feminist group called “La Barbe,” or The Beard, which on May 22 joined protests in Paris against the “dominant male.The Strauss-Kahn case may serve as a trigger to help victims of sexual assaults to break the taboo of rape in France, she said.
Apparently Jean-Francois Kahn, founder of weekly magazine Marianne and a good friend of DSK, laughed on state-owned radio station France Culture, that “there may have been a careless action, how should I put it… the shagging of a servant.” He later apologized.
Writing for the NY Daily News, Rachel Mardsen — who has lived in Paris for two years — says: ‘The French response has been subtly condescending, as if we Americans can’t understand their sophisticated sexual practices and arrest a refined individual like DSK instead of simply tolerating him with a c’est la vie, as the French for so long have.’
Anne’s Own French Faux Pas
Benjamin Kanarek’s Blog: An American Woman Charmed But Not Seduced by French Men
Like Marsen, I am no expert on French men either. But I love France to death and said so today in my recollection of a night in Paris where the French man I was dating here in America very much made me feel that I lacked the sexual sophistication he expected in a lover.
Sarkozy image from here. With regard to the condoms ad, we totally support the use of condoms at any age.
Bloomberg News has now published the FOX allegations about DSK’s back wound and blood in the room.
Strauss-Kahn’s body was examined and photographed after his May 14 arrest. Defense lawyers Benjamin Brafman and William Taylor said their client agreed to a government request for a physical examination.
News organizations including the Wall Street Journal have reported that a DNA sample from Strauss-Kahn matched semen found on the maid’s shirt. The Associated Press reported carpet samples taken from the room may contain semen traces and blood was found on the sheets. Fox News said Strauss-Kahn cut his back on a piece of furniture in the room during a struggle with the victim, who told him that she didn’t want to have sex with him. All the reports cited unidentified sources.
Any blood from a cut on Strauss-Kahn or the woman that was consistent with her resisting would subvert a defense that the sex had been consensual, said Paul Callan, a former New York prosecutor.
“Blood would be critical to prove physical force. If indeed there is an injury to his back, it corroborates a specific detail in her story,” Callan said in a phone interview. “Corroboration is very important. In a case where it’s he-said, she-said, it gives the jury something to rely on.”
