Sunday, May 15, 2011

New York detained the IMF managing director accused of sexual offense

Minutes before his plane departed from JFK in New York to Paris, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was arrested for an alleged crime of sexual assault. It happened yesterday afternoon and, in principle, the indictment issued hours before a cleaning of the Times Square hotel where he stayed.

According to The New York Times moved in its online edition, Strauss Kahn, a possible candidate for president of France, was arrested before he can take an Air France flight. They took him back to Manhattan to make the necessary inquiries. The arrest was conducted by plainclothes officers, about 16.45 hours, they boarded the plane and on the track and took the head of the IMF.

A spokesman for the police force said the operation came ten minutes before takeoff. The body of the port authority took the initiative at the behest of the NYPD, who had opened the matter for a "brutal aggression" to an employee of the Sofitel, a development of 44 th Street in the heart of the theater district city.

Congressman and former Economics Minister Lionel Jospin, Dominique Strauss-Kanh had all the numbers to be the Socialist candidate to take on Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency of France. Current president of the IMF and the reputation precedes him sexual conflicts. In 2008 he had a problem with one of his subordinate, Piroska Nagy, who had to leave the IMF.

In the French media speculated that the position in the IMF could cause problems in this issue, considering that in the United States are more strict than in France in these complaints.

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