IMF Chief to Force Maid to Perform Oral Sex

KOMPAS.com - The New York hotel maid accusing IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has picked him out of a line-up, police revealed tonight.

A spokesman for the New York Police Department said that Strauss-Kahn and five men of a similar height, weight and appearance were asked to stand on parade whilst the woman stood the other side of a one-way mirror.

The victim said: 'That's him' in a 'clear confident voice,' the spokesman said.

The French presidential candidate is set to appear in court this evening to answer to charges including attempted rape. Police made the revelations as his wife said she ‘does not believe for a second’ the allegations made against her husband.

Anne Sinclair, 63, a French journalist, made it clear she would be sticking by the 62-year-old, despite him being charge with a range of crimes including attempted rape.

Calling for ‘decency and restraint’ in the scandal's coverage, she said: ‘I don't believe for one second the accusations made against my husband. I have no doubt that his innocence will be established.’

Strauss-Kahn, 62, previously nicknamed 'The Great Seducer' by the French media, was about to fly to Paris when police boarded the Air France jet at New York’s Kennedy Airport yesterday.

Prosecutors confirmed Strauss-Kahn has been charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment in the alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid in New York City, police said. Strauss-Kahn is expected to be brought before a state court judge later today, as more details emerged about the woman making the accusation.

'He denies all the charges against him,' his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said. 'That's all I can really say right now.'

At 4.45pm yesterday plain clothes detectives from the New York Port Authority, which polices the airport, boarded the plane, Air France Flight 23, ten minutes before it was scheduled to leave, and took Strauss-Kahn into custody.