Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former director of the IMF , for washing its tarnished image after accusations of rape a waitress in a hotel in New York. The complaint was dismissed but with another lawsuit in the making of harassment to a journalist and an aspiration to reach the Elysee truncated, the goal is to regain credibility and clean up your profile. To do this, the politician sat down and explained in little more than fifteen minutes before all of France in his first television appearance after 'Diallo affair'.
DSK called "possible" that has been the subject of a "trap" and answered with a "see" to the question of whether the victim of a "plot". "I've always proclaimed my innocence," said DSK, "what happened in room 2806 occurred without violence.There was no pressure or attacked anyone or had anything criminal. He says the prosecutor, not me . It was a moral failure to my wife, my children, my friends and all the French who were counting on me for the future. "
Strauss-Kahn, who was at all times a rictus worried, stressed his gesture in recognition that "I'm not proud of what happened, I'm sorry [...] For the past four months have seen the damage I've done around me and I thought, I have forever lost that lightness. "
'I was afraid, I was humiliated'
However, he showed firmness in his argument, respondents studied and defending their actions, misinterpreted, in their view, by the media. He criticizes the 'haste' with which he was told to leave New York when he was arrested, for example: " You can not say I left the hotel to the race because the ticket was purchased days , went fast because I was late for lunch with my daughter ".
Yes voice quivers recalling their treatment after the arrest: "I fear. Even before I was humbled to be able to utter a single word."
The judge has finally ruled in favor based on a process "that did not hold because there was no credible physical evidence or statements" . "The prosecutor's report says she has lied in the past and in fact. He has presented many versions that nothing is credible."
Although criminal history is already in the air remains civil, something that surprised because in France DSK can not be the case. Asked if the waitress looking for money only, the politician turned to paraphrase: "I know what she told her boyfriend on the phone but the process will continue because I'm not going to negotiate."
Another open process
The process remains open and is in an uncertain state in which he is accused of harassment of a journalist that he did acknowledge having kissed but nothing more: "I've witnessed. At that meeting there was no aggression or violence. I filed a complaint for slander and say no more because the process is open. "
The serenity of DSK drops some integers when the host, an old friend of the politician's wife, addresses the issue of relations with women and his relationship with his power. The answers come more hesitation: " I read everything written about me is based on lies and is a picture I do not like . All my life I had to because I have held positions of responsibility but I never wanted to take advantage of it " .
On who has supported his wife, whom he praised without reservation: "It's a remarkable woman and without her I would not have resisted. I have a crazy lucky to have her by my side , I've been hurt and blame me but are clear that she would have supported me if I believed in my innocence. "
The end of the political aspirations?
Strauss-Kahn also addressed the issue of their political aspirations. He rejected any possibility of present socialist path to the Elysee primary though-and this is the novelty would not close the door on his political life:"I wanted to be a candidate and I thought that my position in the IMF gave me an insider view" .
Privileged view, too, to discuss the world economy, which focused on questions of space: "If we do not react quickly, Europe is a wasteland in five years. The economies that no longer thought leaders are due to debts, unemployment, aging, etc.. "
Its appearance takes place minutes after the doors of the television fifty women protested against his presence and his release.
DSK called "possible" that has been the subject of a "trap" and answered with a "see" to the question of whether the victim of a "plot". "I've always proclaimed my innocence," said DSK, "what happened in room 2806 occurred without violence.There was no pressure or attacked anyone or had anything criminal. He says the prosecutor, not me . It was a moral failure to my wife, my children, my friends and all the French who were counting on me for the future. "
Strauss-Kahn, who was at all times a rictus worried, stressed his gesture in recognition that "I'm not proud of what happened, I'm sorry [...] For the past four months have seen the damage I've done around me and I thought, I have forever lost that lightness. "
'I was afraid, I was humiliated'
However, he showed firmness in his argument, respondents studied and defending their actions, misinterpreted, in their view, by the media. He criticizes the 'haste' with which he was told to leave New York when he was arrested, for example: " You can not say I left the hotel to the race because the ticket was purchased days , went fast because I was late for lunch with my daughter ".
Yes voice quivers recalling their treatment after the arrest: "I fear. Even before I was humbled to be able to utter a single word."
The judge has finally ruled in favor based on a process "that did not hold because there was no credible physical evidence or statements" . "The prosecutor's report says she has lied in the past and in fact. He has presented many versions that nothing is credible."
Although criminal history is already in the air remains civil, something that surprised because in France DSK can not be the case. Asked if the waitress looking for money only, the politician turned to paraphrase: "I know what she told her boyfriend on the phone but the process will continue because I'm not going to negotiate."
Another open process
The process remains open and is in an uncertain state in which he is accused of harassment of a journalist that he did acknowledge having kissed but nothing more: "I've witnessed. At that meeting there was no aggression or violence. I filed a complaint for slander and say no more because the process is open. "
The serenity of DSK drops some integers when the host, an old friend of the politician's wife, addresses the issue of relations with women and his relationship with his power. The answers come more hesitation: " I read everything written about me is based on lies and is a picture I do not like . All my life I had to because I have held positions of responsibility but I never wanted to take advantage of it " .
On who has supported his wife, whom he praised without reservation: "It's a remarkable woman and without her I would not have resisted. I have a crazy lucky to have her by my side , I've been hurt and blame me but are clear that she would have supported me if I believed in my innocence. "
The end of the political aspirations?
Strauss-Kahn also addressed the issue of their political aspirations. He rejected any possibility of present socialist path to the Elysee primary though-and this is the novelty would not close the door on his political life:"I wanted to be a candidate and I thought that my position in the IMF gave me an insider view" .
Privileged view, too, to discuss the world economy, which focused on questions of space: "If we do not react quickly, Europe is a wasteland in five years. The economies that no longer thought leaders are due to debts, unemployment, aging, etc.. "
Its appearance takes place minutes after the doors of the television fifty women protested against his presence and his release.
