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IMF leader detained after alleged sex attack on NY hotel maid
国际货币基金组织总裁卡恩涉嫌性侵被羁押(图) 中新社
中新社纽约5月14日电(记者 魏晞)纽约市警察局首席新闻发言人保罗·布朗14日对媒体证实，国际货币基金组织(IMF)总裁多米尼克·斯特劳斯-卡恩(Dominique Strauss-Kahn)因涉嫌性侵一名酒店服务员，目前被羁押在纽约市警局并接受警方质询。目前警方还未对他提出正式指控。
据纽约警方透露的信息，斯特劳斯-卡恩周六当天居住在位于曼哈顿时报广场附近的索菲特酒店。酒店一名32岁的女性服务员告诉警方，她于周六下午约1点进入斯特劳斯-卡恩的房间时，卡恩全身赤裸从浴室走出来，并试图对她进行性侵犯。这名女服务员随后逃离了房间，并拨打电话报警。
纽约市警察局新闻发言人保罗·布朗证实，斯特劳恩·卡恩周六是在准备从纽约肯尼迪机场登机飞往巴黎前数分钟，被纽约和新泽西港务局的相关负责人员带下航班，并于周六下午移交给警方。
警方称，斯特劳恩-卡恩离开酒店前往机场时显然十分匆忙，因为他把自己的手机以及不少个人物品都留在了酒店房间内。
作为世界两大金融机构之一，总部设在美国首都华盛顿的国际货币基金组织身负确保全球金融正常运作的重任，一直形象正面，少有负面新闻传出。此次国际货币基金组织总裁因性侵被捕，引起媒体极大关注，早在警方证实斯特劳斯-卡恩被捕前数小时，已有不少美国媒体通过各自渠道获知此事，并予以报道。
现年62岁的斯特劳斯-卡恩曾于1997至1999年间担任法国财政部长，并于2007年接掌国际货币基金组织。有消息称，斯特劳斯-卡恩有计划代表社会党参加明年四月举行大法国总统大选，因此现在任何负面消息对他未来政坛计划都将是沉重打击。
国际货币基金组织一名发言人周六晚间表示，对总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩被捕一事，国际货币组织目前不予置评。French politician is taken off jetliner at Kennedy airport just before flight to Paris
NEW YORK — The leader of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn（法犹）, was taken into custody on Saturday, minutes before he was to fly to Paris from John F. Kennedy International Airport, NBC station WNBC reported.
Strauss-Kahn, a possible 2012 candidate for president of France, was pulled from his first-class seat on an Air France flight by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and turned over to Manhattan detectives, a Port Authority spokesman told The New York Times.
He was accused of a sodomizing a maid at a Times Square hotel earlier in the day, the authorities said. He has not been charged but had retained an attorney and was not making statements to police, authorities said.
The New York Police Department took Strauss-Kahn into custody, where he was "being questioned in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel chambermaid earlier this afternoon," Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, the New York Police Department’s chief spokesman, told the Times Saturday evening. "He is being arrested for a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment."
Strauss-Kahn, 62, allegedly crept up behind a 32-year-old maid after she entered his room and forced her to perform oral sex on him, sources told the New York Daily News. The New York Post said he was naked and had emerged from the bathroom.
The woman broke free and ran out of the room, WNBC said. Strauss-Kahn quickly headed for the airport, sources told the Daily News.
Browne said Strauss-Kahn left his cellphone and other personal items in his Sofitel hotel room.
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"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.
Strauss-Kahn was apprehended at 4:40 p.m. EDT by two Port Authority detectives who suddenly boarded Air France Flight 23, as the plane idled on the tarmac, John P. L. Kelly, an agency spokesman, told the Times.
"It was 10 minutes before its scheduled departure," Kelly said. "They were just about to close the doors."
Kelly said Strauss-Kahn was traveling alone and was not handcuffed during the apprehension.
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The Post said he was turned over to NYPD officers from the Midtown South precinct, and the case is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit.
William Murray, a spokesman for the IMF in Washington, said the IMF had no immediate comment on the reports of Strauss-Kahn's arrest. Socialist party spokespeople could not be reached for comment.
The victim was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where she was being treated for trauma, the Post said.
Strauss-Kahn is a married father of four. His third wife, Anne Sinclair, is a well-known American-born French TV journalist.
Strauss-Kahn, leader of France's Socialist Party, was scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Sunday.
Three years ago, Strauss-Kahn was accused of having a fling with a former underling at the Davos international forum, the Daily News said. In October 2008, he issued an apology to the IMF staff.
"While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which I take full responsibility, I firmly believe that I have not abused my position," Strauss-Kahn wrote in an email to IMF staff.
The IMF board found his actions "regrettable" and said they "reflected a serious error of judgment." The board found that the relationship was consensual.
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The economist, Piroska Nagy, left the fund as part of a buyout of nearly 600 employees instituted by Strauss-Kahn to cut costs, the Times reported. She took a job with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, The Associated Press said.
On Friday, French President Nicholas Sarkozy was accused of organizing a smear campaign against Strauss-Kahn by focusing on his rival's lavish lifestyle, including buying suits from the same tailor who outfits U.S. President Barack Obama, the Post said.
Rejected by the French Socialists as their presidential candidate in 2006, Strauss-Kahn gained international recognition as France's finance minister in 1997-99. He's a possible challenger to Sarkozy in the 2012 election.
He is credited with preparing France for the adoption of the euro by taming its deficit and persuading then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to sign up to an EU pact of fiscal prudence.
A former economics professor, Strauss-Kahn joined the Socialist Party in 1976 and was elected to parliament in 1986 from the Val-d'Oise district, north of Paris. He went on to become mayor of Sarcelles, a working-class immigrant suburb of Paris.
His first government post was industry minister under former President Francois Mitterrand. As finance minister, he reduced France's debt repayments through a raft of privatizations including the sale of shares in France Telecom SA and Air France.
More recently, he has directed the IMF's participation in bailout efforts to keep a European debt crisis which began in Greece from destabilizing the global economy. |
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