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Strauss-Kahn maid’s lawyer appeals for other victims

08 June 2011 21:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. The lawyer for the New York hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her has appealed on French television for other women with claims against the former IMF chief to come forward, APA reports quoting â€œReutersâ€.
"If there are any other women in France or in Africa who may have been abused by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, please, call me, contact me, we want to help you, we want to talk to you," lawyer Kenneth Thompson, who is representing the 32-year-old chambermaid, told i He made a similar appeal on Tuesday evening on France 2 television.
Strauss-Kahn, who was formerly seen as a frontrunner to win France’s 2012 presidential election, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he sexually assaulted the chambermaid at a hotel in Manhattan where he was staying in May.
His lawyers say they have evidence to prove that sexual contact with the maid was consensual, a claim Thompson has dismissed as "preposterous."
A lawyer for Frenchwoman Tristane Banon, a writer, said after Strauss-Kahn’s arrest on May 14 that his client was considering filing a complaint against the Frenchman, a former finance minister, over an alleged sexual assault in 2002.
Banon’s lawyer has said she does not wish to testify in the United States in a case other than her own.
The case has unleashed a debate in France over a code of secrecy in the media that hushes up the sex lives of politicians to the point of keeping quiet about harassment of women.
Strauss-Kahn faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.