A French writer is to make a complaint alleging Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in 2002, her lawyer said on Monday, after the IMF chief was arrested in New York on a similar charge. Novelist and journalist Tristane Banon, 31, previously made the allegation against the leading politician in 2007 on television and in an interview with a news website, but she had not made a formal complaint to authorities. “We’re planning to make a complaint. I am working with her,” lawyer David Koubbi said, adding that his client had previously been persuaded not to take action by her mother, a regional councillor in Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist Party. Strauss-Kahn was arrested on Saturday in New York after a chambermaid who had been cleaning his 3,000-dollar-per-night hotel suite alleged that he had come out of the bathroom naked and sexually assaulted her.
