Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn shouldn’t be tried for sexually assaulting a hotel maid because his accuser told too many lies about the alleged attack, Manhattan prosecutors told a judge.
The housekeeper, Nafissatou Diallo, made numerous false statements and gave prosecutors and a grand jury “irreconcilable accounts” about events immediately after the encounter, leaving investigators unable to determine what actually occurred, prosecutors from the office of District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a motion filed today seeking dismissal of the charges.
“If after a careful assessment of the facts, the prosecutor is not convinced that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, he or she must decline to proceed,” assistant district attorneys Joan Illuzzi-Orbon and John McConnell said in the filing. “While an abiding concern for victims of crime is an essential attribute for every prosecutor working in the office, that concern cannot eclipse our obligation to act only on the evidence and the facts.”
Strauss-Kahn, 62, arrested in May after Diallo told police he attacked her when she came to clean his suite at the Sofitel in midtown Manhattan, may now be able to return home to France, where investigators are probing allegations that he tried to rape French writer Tristane Banon eight years ago, a claim he has denied. He will also have to defend a civil suit Diallo filed in New York state court seeking unspecified damages.
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