Posted on 05/18/2011 6:00:35 AM PDT by Libloather
No anonymity in France for Strauss-Kahn's accuser
Name of NYC hotel maid who says IMF chief attacked her is published in Paris
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 5/17/2011 9:06:18 PM ET
The hotel maid who accuses International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her is a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea who told her brother, "somebody has done something really bad to me," according to media reports.
Her identity has been withheld in U.S. media publications, in accordance with standard journalistic practice. But media outlets in France, where Strauss-Kahn is from, began reporting her name Tuesday.
Among the outlets to identify the woman by name are Paris Match, radio station RMC, Swiss newspaper Tribune de Genève and Slate.fr, according to Slate.com. (Slate.fr is a French website that is editorially independent from Slate, although Slate does own 15 percent of it.)
Slate.fr, citing relatives of the accuser, reports that the woman is a legal immigrant from the west African nation of Guinea and is of the Fulani ethnic group. She is a Muslim who has been living in the U.S. since 1998, when she followed her then-husband to the United States. The pair later divorced, according to the report, and the woman is now a single parent of a 15-year-old daughter.
"She is a good Muslim. She is really pretty, like many Fulani women, but in our culture, we do not accept this type of aggression," a cousin of the woman told slate.fr.
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Amadou Diallo
This tends to suppot her credibiilty. If she wasn’t attacked as alleged, it’s hard to see why she’d want to file charges that could get her killed. Even the chance of a big payoff might not be enough, since she couldn’t take the money with her after an honor killing.
“The article says she is a legal immigrant, but then a relative says She has no right to vote in the US. So, is she legal or illegal.”
actually, legal permanent residents cannot vote. Only once you become a us citizen do you get that right. So you are wrong, it is perfectly possible she is a permanent resident, with all her papers in order, and cannot vote.
>Doesnt her brother have to kill her now, for the honor of the family?
Not if it was all al taqqiya...
Would a muslim lie to bring down one of the most powerful infidels on earth?<
I’ve also been wondering if this was some kind of a set up.
If she is a muslim then why did they arrest the perp? And shouldn’t she be stoned?
And no, I did not write Obama’s college papers.
I understand, there have been multiple responses. Thx though.
"Good muslim" ...with HIV/Aids.
Unless she has been westernized enough and does not practice. She isn’t from the middle east. Unfortunately, rape in many African countries has become out of control (such as the Congo). Perhaps her family back at home sympathize with her due to the attacks many have dealt with there. Hard to say. Just because he said she is a good Muslim, it may have been his way of saying she is a good person. Who knows.
Also, I read that the maid was told that a man had left the room and his room was empty. So, why was she told the room was empty without first looking at the manifest?
Probably auto check-out. Often people check-out on their TV but don’t leave right away. To housekeeping, the unit is a check-out. Often, top suites have a priority to be cleaned quickly to accomodate incoming VIP guests.
He may claim "consent" (or that he was set up)...but the facts beg to differ.
There IS physical evidence---DNA under her fingernails when she scratched him, blood on the bed, a paper trail indicating he had flim-flammed the hotel into thinking he had left.
Luxe hotels handle $3000 a night guests with kid gloves. There's a protocol----the help does not freely enter rooms at will. Apparently maids are not allowed to enter rooms until they are specifically told the guest has departed.
The hotel first sends in a bellman to cart off dishes, empty bottles, and the like BEFORE the maids go in to clean.
The victim had been told by the bellman that the guest had left....and got the OK to enter the room. But when she walked in, DSK was apparently hiding in the bathroom and ran out to attack her when he heard her come in.
From what we now know, it looks like HE set her up for rape.
They hustled him off to Rikers despite a high paid lawyer's plea........probably b/c he's done this before and had been warned.
IOW, a legal immigrant who has not yet attained citizenship.
....the powers to be must have prevented the Orange suit photos
Does that excuse rape if she was here illigal?
I suspect it was a set-up.
Hotels that cater to United Nations and international VIPs surely have more than one person on the staff with foreign loyalties. They probably have many of them. The real story may never come out.
I just don’t understand why we are importing these Muslims? and those with AIDS.
Good point, a non-muslim would be a non-person...
Absolutely not.
(Was it rape-rape?) </irony>
The earlier report I read said a worker ‘saw’ a man leave. I’ll look for the article.
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