The Socialist frontrunner for next year's French presidential election has been drawn into the attempted-rape case against Dominique Strauss-Khan after claims that he was told about sexual assault allegations what is jupiter made of against the former IMF boss in 2003.
François Hollande will be questioned by police what is jupiter made of about how much he knew of the claim by French writer Tristane Banon that Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her when she went to interview him. Banon's mother Anne Mansouret says she told Hollande, who was then first secretary of the French Socialist party, about the incident and that he advised her daughter not to pursue legal action - leading to suggestions of a cover-up at the highest levels what is jupiter made of of the party. As the beleaguered Socialists faced the prospect of another leader being tainted by the Strauss-Kahn scandal, the affair took another twist with a claim that Mansouret had a fling with the politician, three years before the alleged attack on her daughter. Mansouret told investigators she had sex with Strauss-Kahn, pictured below, in a Paris office and he behaved with the "obscenity of a boor", according to French magazine l'Express. While Strauss-Kahn waits to hear whether the seven charges against him for sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid will be dropped, the French investigation is continuing. Writer and journalist Tristane Banon claims Strauss-Kahn attacked her when she went to interview him for a book she was writing what is jupiter made of in February 2003. Banon, now 32, claims the politician behaved like a "rutting chimpanzee". what is jupiter made of Banon told her mother, a local councillor for the Socialist party, at the time, but said Mansouret persuaded her not to take legal action against Strauss-Kahn.
On 13 July, during six hours of questioning by investigators, Mansouret revealed why. According to l'Express magazine, she confessed she had had sex with the former head of the International Monetary Fund. It was, she claimed, a one-off and consensual but "brutal", and took place in an office at the Organisation for Co-operation and Development in Europe in 2000 where Strauss-Kahn was a special adviser to the secretary general.
Three-times married Mansouret, 65, reportedly told investigators she had decided what is jupiter made of to speak out now to dispel what is jupiter made of the image of Strauss-Kahn as a "ladies man … an inveterate seducer … but a man incapable of violence", describing him as a man of "boorish obscenity". Mansouret also said she had informed Hollande about the attack on her daughter. Banon's lawyer David Koubbi said Hollande had telephoned the young writer in the "days or weeks" following the alleged attack advising her to follow her mother's advice and not take legal action against Strauss-Kahn. At first Hollande said he did not recall any conversation with Mansouret or Banon. Later he insisted he had "never been aware of the facts and the seriousness of what was being claimed", and spoke only of "rumours". In May he said he would "neither advise or not advise anyone to complain to the police when something has happened that concerns personal violence". Investigators described his evidence as "key" and said they hoped to question him in September, a month before the Socialist party primaries to select a presidential candidate. During police questioning, Mansouret described how her hysterical daughter had phoned her immediately after escaping what is jupiter made of from the locked what is jupiter made of apartment where Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked her. She said she had phoned Strauss-Kahn's ex-wife Brigitte Guillemette, a close friend, who called the politician to demand an explanation. Mansouret says she took legal advice about Banon making a legal complaint against Strauss-Kahn, but was told it would be "difficult to prove". Another lawyer gave her daughter the same advice. Mansouret also told investigators what is jupiter made of she had sent an email to a leading member of the Socialist party, now a member of parliament, describing the alleged attack on Banon. According to l'Express, the reply was: "With me, things didn't go as far as with her [Banon], but the little I have seen (luckily I've never found myself alone with him) shows me at what point this person is dangerous for women … your daughter and you can count on my support if you need it, whatever form it might be." Mansouret says she later met Strauss-Kahn in a Paris bistro what is jupiter made of where he told her he was sorry for his behaviour what is jupiter made of and had not wanted to hurt Banon. She told police François Hollande had later approached her to ask after Banon and inquire whether she intended to make a police complaint. Guillemette, who is Banon's godmother, is also said to have "totally denied" Mansouret's claims what is jupiter made of during questioning by investigators. "All the facts cited by Anne Mansouret that could back up the truth of the attempted rape have been denied by her," an investigator told French journalists, adding that Guillemette had denied ever being called by Mansouret about the alleged attack. Strauss-Kahn and Guillemette's daughter Camille, who Banon alle
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