The hotel chamber maid from Guinea that accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulted her has launched on Sunday a media offensive in an effort to get the former director of the IMF incarcerated and to defend her honor.
In the interview for ABC News, the maid faced some problems with English language. While trying to describe when the former head of the IMF began to hit her, she distorted some words.
After strictly avoiding the media for more than two months, the alleged victim presented her version of the aggression that she suffered for the New York Newsweek magazine.
“Because of him I’m treated as a prostitute”, said the woman who has been hiding from May 14 with her 15 years old daughter in a hotel kept secret.
“I want him to go to jail. I know him to know that there are places where he can’t use his power, where he can’t use his money”, she added.
Monday morning, her testimony was broadcast on the “Good Morning America” on ABC.
This appearance takes place exactly a week before the hearing on 1 August during which Strauss-Kahn, indicted for seven counts, among them sexual assault and attempted rape, will compare again in New York court.
The American Justice ruled on July 1 to parole Strauss-Kahn, but without abandoning charges of sexual offenses against former director of the International Monetary Fund, but evoking a “erroneous testimony” of the maid. Reports that she had links within the criminal environment has also brought damage to her credibility.
She discussed several hours after the alleged facts, with a drug dealer about her interest to press charges against former French minister, conversation that was recorded, according to the press.
“I told the investigators what this man made to me. This has never changed. I know what that man made”, she told Newsweek.
“I want justice. I want him to go to jail”, she told ABC.
“God is my witness: I tell the truth. From the heart. God knows. And he knows”, added the 32-year-old woman.
She admitted to ABC that he made some “errors”, but assured them that her version of the facts has never changed from May 14 assault at a Sofitel hotel apartment in New York.
She said she entered the room, saying: “Hello, room service”.
A “crazy man”, naked and with gray hair appeared then, told the woman.
While she wanted to apologize and leave the apartment, Strauss-Kahn would have said: “You don’t have to excuse yourself”, she told Newsweek.
Then the former Director of the IMF would have caught her chest and then closed the door as the room.
Then the woman issue a description in harsh terms of what happened, according to her version, in the luxury apartment.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have responded immediately, accusing the woman for trying to “inflame public opinion”.