USA: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn held at a New York police station overnight ahead of his arraignment

Record ID: 556001

  • Title: USA: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn held at a New York police station overnight ahead of his arraignment
  • Date: 16th May 2011
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MAY 15, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF POLICE CAR GOING THROUGH ENTRANCE AS REPORTERS STAKE OUT AREA REPORTERS STANDING BY LIVE TV STATION BROADCAST VANS PARKED WIDE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS STANDING CLOSE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS STANDING UNDER NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT EXTERIOR SIGN WIDE OF TV NEWS VAN ON STREET
  • Embargoed: 31st May 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Usa, Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVATRHKHVN0AM87CUE2XRC5X7Y7
  • Story Text: Journalists gathered outside a New York police station on a rainy Sunday (May 15) where IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was held overnight.
    Strauss-Kahn arrested and charged on Sunday (May 15) with sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid, in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of running for president of France.
    Police are expected to move Strauss-Kahn to a New York State courthouse later on Sunday (May 15) where he will be arraigned on sexual assault charges.
    The charges threatened to create a leadership vacuum at the IMF, overseer of the global economic system, and threw wide open the French presidential election next April, for which opinion polls had made Strauss-Kahn the front-runner.
    One of his lawyers, Benjamin Brafman, told Reuters that his client "will plead not guilty".
    The 62-year-old Socialist, a key player in the response to the 2007-9 global financial meltdown and in Europe's debt crisis, was taken off an Air France plane about to leave for Paris from John F Kennedy International Airport on Saturday.
    The news caused shock and disbelief in France, where a government spokesman called for caution and respect for the presumption of innocence.
    The International Monetary Fund said in a statement on its website that it "remains fully functioning and operational", and had no comment on the case.
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