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# Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'like a rutting chimpanzee', says alleged victim
## International Monetary Fund head faces second sexual assault charge by
female French journalist and writer Tristane Banon.
6:06PM BST 16 May 2011
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During a chat show broadcast on Paris Premiere in February 2007, French writer
Tristane Banon alleged she was violently attacked by Dominique Strauss Kahn
nine years ago.
In this clip from the show, she tells host Thierry Ardisson and his guests -
publisher Jacques Seguela, government press adviser Thierry Saussez,
journalist Jean-Michel Aphatie and actor Roger Hanin - that the attack
happened in 2002 while she was interviewing him for a book she was writing.
Describing him as "a rutting chimpanzee" who "no attractive women want to work
for", she alleged he invited her back to his flat before forcing himself upon
her.
She escaped and considered filing charges of attempted rape at the time but,
not wanting to be known "as the girl who had a problem with a politician",
decided against it for the sake of her career.
Mr Strauss Kahn's name was censored in the original broadcast. He was later
named when the video was posted online.
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### Full transcript
**Triptane Banon:** I had a bad experience with [Dominique Strauss-Kahn].
**Thierry Ardisson:** That's right, [Dominique Strauss-Kahn].
**TB:** He is a rutting chimpanzee!
**TA:** He is obsessed with - well, it's true, we know it - he is obsessed
with chicks, seriously.
**TB:** In the National Assembly, there is not an attractive girl left willing
to work in his office. You just have to look: he must be the only one with a
secretary who is 60 years old and practically obese. Well, there must be a
reason...
**TA: **So how did it happen, then?
**TB:** What happened was that, for my first book Erreurs Avouees (Mistakes
Confessed) - for which I interviewed you too - the concept was to ask
celebrities the biggest mistake of their lives. Naturally I asked him too. He
stonewalled, as was to be expected. I told him "well, I'm not sure I will use
this," to which he replied "look, I'm leaving, I'll call you when I get home
if I think of something else to tell you". He called me back later and
suggested we meet. He gave me an address I didn't know. Now that surprised me
since I know a little about his life. I know where he lives, I know where his
office is, I have an idea of where the Assembly is located. It wasn't any of
these. I arrived at the address. I parked my car, I went upstairs. It was an
empty flat.
**TA:** Oh my.
**TB:** Totally empty. With a VCR, a television, a bed at the back. Very
beautiful, he has good taste, mister has good taste. Exposed beams, beautiful,
with a courtyard. And then, he gently closed the door. I put down the tape
recorder immediately to record. He wanted me to hold his hand while he
answered, because he told me: "I won't be able to if you don't hold my hand".
And after that, from my hand, he went to my arm, and then a bit higher. So I
stopped right away. When I arrived I was wearing a black turtleneck ...
**TA:** When you left, you only had a thong!
**TB:** ... it may excite guys to see a black turtleneck, but come on. And
after that, things ended very, very badly, because we ended up fighting.
**TA:** Yeah, they had a fight.
**TB:** It ended very, very violently because I told him clearly... Truly, we
did fight. We didn't merely slap each other, we gave - well I gave - kicks,
and he undid my bra, he tried to undo my jeans.
**TA:** Ah, I just love that.
**Guest:** I mean, you see, this is foolish. If he can do that, he can do
anything.
**TB:** When finally I left, he sent me a text message straight away saying:
"So, are you afraid of me?" in a provocative tone. I had talked to him, while
we were fighting. I had told him about the ... I had said "rape" rape to
frighten him, but it didn't frighten him more than that. It just goes to show
you that, apparently, he was used to it. After that, he was continually
sending me text messages saying [ ...]
**Guest:** Did you go to court?
**TB:** No, but I went as far as drawing up a case. I went and saw a top
lawyer who already had an impressive file about him, but I didn't dare go
through with it. I didn't want to be, until the end of my days, the girl that
had had a problem with a politician.
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