French Accuser of DSK Refuses to Help American Prosecution
The lawyer for Tristane Banon, a young French novelist who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2002, has reaffirmed that his client will not cooperate with the prosecution of Strauss-Kahn in the United States. On Wednesday, Banon’s lawyer, David Koubbi, told the French news channel BFM, “There are obviously two cases and each case should be treated in isolation, according to the laws of the country in question.” Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF, is accused of having sexually assaulted a chamber maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York on May 14.
Koubbi made his comments one day after a lawyer for the maid appealed for help in remarks broadcast on the French television channel, France 2. “If there are any women out there, whether in France or in Africa, who have been sexually assaulted or sexually abused by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, I ask them please to call me, contact me. … We want to talk with them,” lawyer Kenneth Thompson said.
Earlier, in a May 20 interview with BFM, Koubbi had already flagged his client’s unwillingness to aid the American prosecution of Strauss-Kahn. “Neither Tristane Banon nor I myself want to be used [instrumentalisé] by the American judiciary or to provide any cooperation whatsoever such that these two cases become connected in one way or another. It is completely out of the question in the case of Tristane Banon that an action on our part results in Dominique Strauss-Kahn being found guilty in the United States.”
Koubbi’s allusion to being “used” by the American judiciary is in keeping with the general tenor of the French coverage of the Strauss-Kahn case. From the start, the French media have called into question the fairness of the American criminal justice system – or the “atrocious” American criminal justice system, as one supposed “expert” on BFM put it.
The mere fact that you can negotiate a sentence makes the American justice system atrocious.
The mere fact that you can get reduced sentence in one case by testifying in another, makes the American justice system unfair. In effect you trade one persons justice with another persons justice. Americans might have gotten used to it and find it natural. But for a European it’s downright disgusting.
Also the fact that you are sure to be sodomized when you go to prison, makes the American justice system atrocious. Nowhere in the law does it say that you will be sodomized for braking any law. Still that’s what happens. It’s virtually a part of the sentence. But you can’t really say that Americans care much for the actual law. Even the constitution has been ignored since 1933. America is a society based on tradition, not law. That’s atrocious.
And pointing to whatever faults there might be in the European justice systems (which I’m sure someone will do), does not change the above mentioned issues one bit.
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But, ah, pointing to faults in the US justice system is totally a good reason why no help should be forthcoming from the French justice system? Yeah right as New Zealanders say.
The one thing I love most about being an American is not having to give a crap about what the rest of the world thinks.
Dave…your statement is true for most of us, but there is a desire in the Ruling Class of wimps to adopt the very worst of European attitudes and laws. Justice Kennedy has been quoted that he considers International Law when making decisions overturning US Law. Socialists like Obama have no respect for US Law and emulate the Europeans who are actually to the right of JugEars.
Canuck- Even worse there is now talk from the Obama administration to join with the Europeans to adopt the UN effort to have an “International registry” of all guns and gun owners. Sounds like pre war Germany. This is another Obama back-door operation to circumvent the US congress and the US citizens. I can only suggest that you use your 2nd ammendment rights while they still exist. At some point in the near future we must assure that there are more of us than of them. Why must we even acquire a Concealed Carry permit for a right that is already defined by our founders and adopted into law of the land. Obama has no respect for the rule of law unless he can use it to advance his “take-over” agenda. He circumvented congress and went to the UN to start his last war. Congressional members are a bunch of Whimps that appear to be in tacit agreement with Obamunism.
That makes 2 of us.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I cannot agree with you more! We are obviously cut from the same cloth. The American “justice” system has never really existed. Ask any black person over the age of 10. And you are correct about America existing according to “tradition”. Remember what Calvin Coolidge said: “the business of America is business”. Precisely! American has been killing, robbing, stealing and imposing its will ever since the first pilgrims landed at Mount Rushmore. Exhausted from imposing its will on other people, America now imposes its will on Mother Earth…stealing 50% of her energy, sapping Her of Her natural moisturizer (oil…and thus actually causing earthquakes), and polluting Her will plastics, golf, and the refuse of once used board games, like Parchese.
Lovely Earth,
I wonder what kind of earth you would impose on the rest of us if you could….. I don’t think I’d like it very much.
Wayne, Wayne, Wayne! You might get more out of the LovelyEarth post if you read it more carefully! Try again! In case you need directions, IN what year did the Pilgrims land at MOUNT RUSHMORE? You know one of the best ways to confront pomps asses like JL is with sarcasm!
“The American ‘justice’ system has never really existed. Ask any black person over the age of 10.”
Why ask any black person over the age of 10? Are you saying that many blacks as young as 10 get in trouble with the law? Shouldn’t that be of more concern to you than the American justice system? Also, even though they get in trouble, don’t blacks over the age of 10 get proper representation?
I always like how people say sheer nonsense and think they are being eloquent.
Chris, I give the same advice to you I gave to Wayne! Read the post again, slowly, you may get it!
You need to change your moniker to “ramblin’ f’n rose”. Man, what are you taking for your mental state?
Scott, I’d suggest you take a dose of carrot juice, or whatever it is that improves one’s vision. Or something to improve your reading comprehens — okay, for God’s sake, IT’S A JOKE. “Mount Rushmore”? Nice touch, LovelyEarth!
‘piglrims landed at Mount Rushmore’?
You are either retarded or foreign, and nobody gives a damn what you think.
There is nothing superior in a European culture that excuses rape as merely one of the privileges of rich socialist men. It is only slightly removed from Islamic/Arabic cultures that excuse rape if the woman can’t get four witnesses to back up the accuser.
The fact that you can negotiaite your sentence is an example of mercy and common sense in the US justice system. but, then again, I really don’t care what ‘disgusts’ a bunch of socialists and America bashers.
The mere fact that French judges vote with the jury on guilt or innocence makes their system a crock. In addition, none of the Napoleonic code countries protect defendants’ civil rights the way our system does. You also failed to point out that defense attorneys in the US are allowed to point out plea bargains and reduced sentences to jurors. I’m not sure the word ‘fair’ means what you think it means.
Of course it is impossible to be sodomized in a European prison since a nesessary element of sodomy is a lack of consent.
Tradition has always been part of the law. In fact, the two great legal codes in the West, the Corpus Juris Civilis and the English Law, developed out of the interplay of tradition, juridical rulings, and statute law.
No one would claim the American system is perfect. So of course any criticism one might level against it is not made irrelevant by criticism of a European system. The question is, which is better over all, on grounds of justice and of efficacy. The latter question is not answered so easily, like, for example, simply stating the crime rates, as there are complicated cultural and historical factors.
At any rate, none of your objections seem to apply to this trial. He is claiming innocence, so a deal is out of the question; and the prison he would go to would hardly be a den of sodomists.
Some words in your post reveal your complete ignorance about the American attitude in this regard.
Americans call “it” pride and they clamoring for the unimpeded practice of “that” and you will be hit with demeaning epithet should you have an opposing view.
The inculcation of the “beauty of it” starts at some places at early age, and the noun of male and female is about to be expunged from the correct diction.
‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ Changing to ‘Parent One,’ ‘Parent Two’ on Passport Applications.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/07/passport-applications-soon-gender-neutral/#ixzz1P61zho4R
Let’s say, for the sake of the argument, that what you wrote is true (it’s not). How does it justify the hypocrisy in France? The lack of will to help justice?
It doesn’t!
It’s pure and simple anti American feelings coming to play on the wrong court.
Glass houses, don’t throw stones.
http://www.economist.com/node/13653923
claiming that ‘being sodomized’ is guaranteed whilst in prison is a bold claim that requires bold evidence…or shall I assume that you have acquired ‘first-hand experience’?
Being sodomized in prison is terrible (I agree), but I also oppose having a young girl sodomized by a member of the cultural elite. Yet the French seem to be OK with that. This article is less about the differences in legal systems than the willingness of certain segments of our societies to grant exemptions to members of their own class and to play the anti-American card to get away with it. I’m glad that we give an immmigrant cleaning lady her day in court.
I completely agree.
“But you can’t really say that Americans care much for the actual law.” Words from bigoted superior-minded stereotyping typical in French media and society.
The guy sounds like a real pig. I hope he’s found guilty here in the United States and thrown in a small cell and is used like a sex toy by a bunch of gang members. Let him feel what it’s like being on the receiving end of such behavior. Men who prey on women like that are the lowest form of life there is. Who knows how many other women out there suffered the same fate as that maid in New York City, but are too scared or too poor to come forward. And, since the guy probably thought that he was so powerful and so rich that nobody would prosecute him, I hope the New York City District Attorney will prove to the world that American justice will prosecute anyone, regardless of how much money and power they have. No wonder the French consider our American criminal justice system “atrocious.” Sometimes, it actually works.
#3 libertyship –#1 JL
Liberty I usually enjoy and agree with your posts,but I think you (and most of the others posting here today) are dead wrong on this one.While I agree he probably is a pig,it is not illegal to be a pig under American law.It is an unfortunate fact that many women lie about things of this nature,and they do so for many reasons,enriching themselves not being the least of them.As an American,I admitt that it stings when I read posts such as #1JL,but at least a couple of excellent points were made by him or her.And it is my understanding,as pointed out by JL at #1, that inmate rape is a fact of life in American prisons,a deplorable thing.Locking someone up is one thing,locking them up and allowing them to be raped is quite another. If you are going to incarcerate human beings,you owe them protection from predators no matter what they are imprisoned for.How would you like to be sent to prison in error, or not,and have to live every day in fear of being raped and brutalized?It happens right here in our country frequently enough I imagine,and our prisons are probably better run than most if taken and compared worldwide. I do not know if Kahn is guilty or innocent,hopefully time will tell but I do not feel good about this.Something,or things,seems askew,I may be wrong.If Kahn is found innocent,and I mean not through a technicality,but to the satisfaction of all involved,we will be red faced for a long time,simply because so many Americans have been so quick to pronounce him guilty.And the French,who have always been convinced of intellectual and moral superiority over us lowly Americans,will be even harder to live with.T.
“From the start, the French media have called into question the fairness of the American criminal justice system – or the “atrocious” American criminal justice system”
These people are not our friends, not our allies. Treat them as such.
–EUrope must be destroyed–
ErisGuy,
Europe IS being destroyed…. by leftists…. who are opening up the gates of the castle to the Muslim hordes… and it is truly a shame. Have you ever been to Europe? What is happening in Europe (including England) will also happen here. It is past time we started to do something about it. Throwing the elitist filthy scumbag DSK in a filthy cell with other filthy scumbags is a small, but encouraging start.
Never a truer word
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sorry here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b9J8D3tOg
1. The last time I read a piece about sodomy which made me appalled was like two or three months ago in Slate. Many Americans seem to practise it, and many women either seem to like it or to think they have to do it. Sodomy doesn’t seem to be among the charges here.
2. The American justice system, good for big recompensation and career building makes sane people afraid, and I wonder why there’s not more criticism of it in the States.
3. Many anti-French comments I’ve read since May, 14th, showed me that Americans are prone to creating hostility towards other countries, even France. That’s outrageous. It would be much better to keep a better eye on Iran.
4. This is not the 1945 hero nation that freed us from Hitler any more. In some media, it’s rather Salem, Mass. at the time of the witch trials.
The sodomy reference was about Polanski at Cannes. And I was talking about cultural elites, of which American also has a few. But they are all liberals who care about the little people.
Easy ignorance from another French? who reads an article off the net. Archaic laws still in some books (like sodomy) are not applied.
@Dany: The definition of sodomy includes oral sex, so yes, it is part of the accusations here.
Better to keep an eye on Iran? If we were to actually try something with Iran I’ll give you one guess which gaggle of the usual suspects would obfuscate and interfere with America at every step of the way. You can bet La France would be right at the head of that pack. French, and indeed broader European, policy is little more than reactionary anti-Americanism.
“–EUrope must be destroyed–”
Don’t worry! They’re more than three generations down the road to destroying themselves!
There is a study of a prison system in the midwest from 1996 that shows a 1 in 5 risk of a male being sexually coerced in a particular prison system. So it’s not “virtually part of the sentence,” though it’s bad enough. Still, saying “pointing to whatever faults there might be in the European justice systems does not change the above” does not actually spare you the comparison. If the flaws you point to are shared (or are substantially worse, as they are) across the globe, then your supercilious contempt is pointless. After all, would you contend that all prisoners be set free because incarceration is imperfect? Even in California, where the courts want thousands of prisoners let loose,the standard for what is unnacceptable is somewhat different than your faux-utopianism.
Classic Frenchman.
That French woman is making a statement and she’ll show us, all right. If the man is guilty and is not convicted and he continues assaulting women, that REALLY will show us. I wonder if money changed hands.
Anyway, I thought past sexual history could not be used to prosecute in rape cases.
Charges should be filed on this bitch for making a false police report or some violation that would fit her action. Deport her if nothing else if she doesn’t respect the American judiciary, firggin’ frogs…
“Also the fact that you are sure to be sodomized when you go to prison, makes the American justice system atrocious.”
I guess the french inmates are merely seduced
Well, it is certainly more romantic. The French are refined, you know.
They are barbaric. By getting rid of all their Judeo-Christian taboo’s they’ve already fallen into canabalism. And they call us disgusting!
Yup, there is a lot that is negative about the American judicial system. For example, the defendants right to a speedy trial can be waived by the accused, delaying “justice” for years. Then again, the American analytical proclivity for temporally separating a speedy trial into its discrete parts–the arraignment, the prelim, the trial, endless judicial review of the sentencing instructions by the trial judge–means that hardly anyone gets executed while still alive. The execution doesn’t count as part of the “speedy trial.” So dead men walking usually die of natural causes on death row. I suppose the French are better, they don’t execute anyone anymore and their rule of lawyers runs the government, but it looks like they shot their wad in Libya; we Yankees got rid of Sadam in two weeks, but the Frogs and limeys–those former bad imperialists– can’t even get rid of Moammar with the permission of the fond of buggering Arab League.
Getting back to the actual topic of this article…..
Tristane Bannon did not report the DSK’s assault on her in 2002 because, in part, “I did not feel very comfortable with the idea of finding myself having to confront the matter all alone.”
Of course, she’s making the hotel maid do just the same, simply to satisfy her disdain for the US criminal justice system. So much for feminist solidarity.
Excellent point, GD. “The maid will clean that up.”
There are far more salient examples of the corruption in our system that the ones point out here. The first one that comes to mind is the fact that the courts ruled that prosecutors cannot be sued for any intentional harm they inflict on an innocent defendant. In no other country do I know of can you have a prosecutor can a prosecutor knowingly introduce perjurious testimony into a court and not be civilly liable (criminally doesn’t count, since that requires the state to police its own–good luck with that one!)
Another example of corruption is that we have a system, called civil asset forfeiture, which literally allows the forfeiture of property without due process of law. The way it works is the system “sues your property” so the case isn’t “United States vs. John Q Citizen,” it’s “United States vs. John’s Car” with John Q. Citizen having to prove that his car wasn’t used in the commission of a crime. The courts have also ruled that the mere possession of large quantities of cash on your person is itself, ipso facto, probable cause that you have committed or are about to commit a crime (thus making seizing it trivial).
While the average conservative was engaging in a lot of d!@#-waiving about how great our system is, the political class was busy reducing our actual system to somewhere between the Napoleonic Code and a banana republic’s…
>>prosecutors cannot be sued for any intentional harm they inflict on an innocent defendant.
What are you talking about? What’s “malicious prosecution”?
Malicious prosecution only applies in those cases where a prosecutor brings charges against someone who they know is actually innocent or they bring charges for unprofessional reasons (spite, reprisal, etc.). It’s also rather hard to get a prosecutor on.
As for “what I’m talking about,” take a gander at this…
Don’t we call prosecutors who get their head handed to them for misconduct being, “Nyfonged,”?
don’t know much about the french justice system.
don’t know if these accusations are true or not.
however, i do know the amerikan ‘justice’ system is about as perverted a thing as can be described using words. it is entirely about $$$, and everybody knows it. the system set up by our forefathers described by fairness, truth, equality before the law, and words to that effect, are in no way reflective of what goes on these days. no one tells the truth in court anymore. equality, yeah, men see that all the time in divorce court when their children and $$ are automatically taken. by the way, all these ‘precepts of law’ must exist for any of them to exist. you cannot have justice if you have no truth, or equality, or fairness, and so forth.
take this example of a woman claiming rape. what if she is lying? is there any justice for the man? will the woman get 20 yrs. in prison, as the man could if found guilty? not hardly. she might be charged with filing a false police report. $100 fine, maybe? and let’s not forget the follow up civil suit where she will probably get million$$$$. little proof required. easy lottery ticket. excellent chance of winning.
this is common of justice in today’s courtroom, not unique. doubt the french have much to brag about, but i also doubt it could be much more corrupt than what we have.
We should pity Tristane Bannon. The French woman has to live in France and women there obviously don’t have the same respect. She would face criticism if she testified. (What our media have been doing to Sara Palin being an example)
Europeans have always had a tradition of aristocracy with a different set of rules than those imposed on the average person. The US is a completely different culture, one where each individual has rights, not different rights reserved for the upper class. We are a unique country, the last best hope for justice and freedom for the individual human being.
How can you pity an enabler such as Ms. Bannon? She placed loyalty to socialism ahead of justice. She may be a comely bint, but she’s still a socialist frog.
Everyone here is taking Banone’s statement at face value, as if it were a spontaneous and un-forced expression of what she really thought. Does anyone doubt that she has been under severe pressure, both unofficial and semi-official, to help DSK this way? This statement is probably the least she get away with, and it almost surely does not represent her true feelings.
I’m not so sure. I detect gratuitous America-thwarting. “Used”? Sure.
So, the now-30-something French bint can discuss her assault by DSK on French television, but she can’t aid the American prosecutors.
Typical frog.
And they wonder why we hold them in contempt as cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
French legal system: accused is presumed guilty until proven innocent.
American legal system: accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
I’ll take the American system with all its faults — money grubbing lawyers and tendency in recent decades to over prosecute on the basis of p.c., while at the same time letting off or giving short sentences to violent criminals — over the French system, which besides the major problem of being administered by the French, is run, like that country’s media, by a socialist elite that pre-determines the outcomes of cases.
The most lasting trace of French influence in the U.S. is found in Louisiana, the most corrupt state in the union. It has something to do with their culture.
And don’t forget that the most corrupt province (and probably only province with measurable or significant corruption) in Canada is Québec. I wonder why that is…
There must be justice for the immigrant maid! The maid’s family have spoken about their shame. The shame belongs completely to Dominique Strauss-Kahn! Justice is preventing this filthy sexual predator from ever again sexually assaulting another woman. Does Tristane Banon not believe this?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his extremely wealthy wife believe they can get away with his crime because of their enormous power and wealth.
Only G-D knows how many girls and women have suffered sexual assault by this selfish, inhuman monster. Only G-D can give true justice to this evil predator.
Send Tristane a compass. That way she’ll be able to know which way West is next time she (or her country) needs help. Better yet let her know she’ll need to get her help somewhere else next time.
The only direction she’ll need to find on a compass is Southeast, so that she will know where Mecca is when she’s planting her face on the prayer rug. If she can see through the veil, that is.
I guess the French should be allowed to enjoy their famous sense of self-satisfaction for a bit longer. France will not even exist in any recognizable form a century from now.
You got to just love the french. They always come crying saying help me help me and then shit on the helper. I just wonder what france is going to do after the muslims take control. The french love their language, hope they can speak arabic! No more month vacations and they will work for the muslims who will take the french women for sex slaves and kill whoever does not convert to islam. Europe has become a bunch of spineless little girls!
I have a question for Tristane Banon: how much did Anne Sainclair paid you to not pressed charges against her husband when he assaulted you in 2002?
I guess Mlle. Banon doesn’t recognize the hypocrisy of her own omerta.
However, the prosecution in the US shouldn’t need Tristane.
DSK’s lawyers are going after some protocol (irregularity) that he called the hotel from the airport to say he’d left behind one of his cellphones and that his phone call helped the authorities figure out where he was, at the airport, ready to board a plane to France that doesn’t extradite to the US.
Since his DNA (semen) was on her dress, they’re not going to be able to argue she made it up or framed him, although they will certainly be doing everything in their revolting power to discredit her.
Her lawyer or lawyers shouldn’t need to introduce DSK’s “history” to win this case.
(as he was sitting in first class getting ready to return to France, our frustrated Frenchman made some tacky observation in French about a stewardess’ rear end)
You want to know why she doesn’t want to “help”? Because what she said happened NEVER HAPPENED!!!! Kahn is being set-up by YOUR government because he found out that Fort Knox is empty and was going to spill the beans.
If you guys keep believing everything the MSM feeds you…..
please go back to your circlejerk with Alex Jones
As I read the comments it appears as if some people just saw this article as an opportunity to bash America. Why is it that Europeans fairly universally feel the need to bah the USA? Knowing human nature this is all to make themselves feel better about themselves. Being 1st gen of European descent all I can say is that I have great disdain for the direction of America as well but only because it is becoming more like Europe. The logic that this woman has is seems so warped to me that it is beyond explanation. The west is in decline with America being behind Europe but going in the same direction. TO me at least Europe is in it’s sunset, who will they blame when it gets dark? People left Europe and came here for good reason and I would like to see America return to the Constitution and turn away from socialism no matter the discomfort. If it does so America may yet survive but Europe is done, maybe Sharia will treat you all better.
One thing to keep in mind is that the French do not have a free press. The government grants them permission to practice their profession and they can take that permission away. To keep the journalists co-opted they give them breaks in the brutally punishing French tax system. So they quite literally have to say whatever the government wishes them to say. But the system has been in effect so long that they are willing accomplices. Everyone knows the deal going in. France is very much a class oriented society and it is beyond the pale that someone from the upper ranks should be held to account.
There is a reason why anyone who wished to be free fled Europe long, long ago.
And BTW, DSK certainly seems to like sodomy when he is dishing it out. I shall not cry a tear if he is on the receiving end. But we all know that no matter what the disposition of the case he will at worst end up in a country club. At least in the US there is a chance he shall not walk free. We saw the European version of justice when they did not hand over Polanski despite his having been convicted of drugging and raping a child. Europeans claim to be so sophisticated compared to Americans but I see more evidence of their barbarism. They do not protect their women or their children. Those are the very basics of a civilized society.
To 1stGenUSA I would say that French logic is an oxymoron. I feel for what Banan went through and can see her not wanting to relive it and could have accepted that but the reasons she gave were BS and amount to her being an accomplice in anything DSK does from this point forward. Europeans are grand at telling everyone else what their social responsibilities are but when it comes to them being responsible for their actions and choices… At any rate it is not at all clear her testimony would even be allowed but it was sickening how she stood up for her attacker. It is that mindset which explains how fascism found such fertile ground in Europe.
A very stupid article, quite derogatory from the usually high standards found in Pajamas Media.
1) Mrs Banon’s testimony would not be admissible, since whatever happened to her is unrelated to the case against DSK and would be character evidence.
2) “French legal system: accused is presumed guilty until proven innocent.
American legal system: accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty.”
An utterly nonsensical coment: both legal systems are based on the presumption of innocence. The main differences are in the administration of evidence and the role of the presiding judge.
3) It is not because Mrs Banon’s lawyer said some pretty strange things (taken out of an unknown context), that wild assumptions and conclusions should be drawn about France, the French legal system or the French people. Please do not sink to the level of the Frencg press.
4) The presumption of innocence is the most extraordinary conquest of legal history. Please, respect and cherish it. DSK has NOT yet been found guilty by a jury of his peers and none of you should have had access to the police file concenring that case. Thus, please abstain from pissing in the wind: you might be drenched.
5) I do not consult Pajamas Media to find, in another context, the character assassinations I read elsewhere concerning, for example, Sarah Palin’s emails.
6) Basic issue: if you do not have solid facts, change the subject or shut up.
PS – I am an attorney at law in the US and a PhD in Law in France.
Who says they’re asking her for testimony? And how the hell do you know that NOTHING she says is admissible?
Dude – it’s a blog. Lighten up.
I agree with most of what attorney says. That said…
Outside of the legal issues, there is the criticism by many in France of our legal system. Criticism is OK, as long as it is based upon credibly documented or verifiable reality. However, much of what they claim is simply a philosophical difference. And I’m not fond of the notion of people in prison sodomizing or brutalizing each other. But it is a reality.
Ultimately, I know that when in Rome, I do as Romans do. DSK may have done something that he shouldn’t have been able to get away with in either country. Clearly the US has jurisdiction here. Let the chips fall where they may.
And as for the French legal system, it is theirs to decide how they want it to go. I note such things any time I travel to another country, just as I pay attention the laws of each state of the USA I may spend time in. It is their decision; let it be. I do not begrudge them their right to self determination just as they should not begrudge ours.
If they don’t like our legal system they don’t have to come here. And vice versa. Now, can we please have a more civil discussion of the facts?
LOL. I stopped at the nonsense when he started talking about blacks being criminals beyond age 10.
Gotta love the influx of foreigners and leftist retards posting comments on this article
Then who cares! Let him do what he will and let her deal with it as she will. There are too many crimes that are prosecutable for the State to go looking for sin if those sinned against don’t want to play the game.
Ok fine then….she’s a whore. I’m so sick of of defending the honor of idiots that don’t have the common sense to defend the themselves when they can. Why should I? Just remind this stupid whore that evertime a woman is raped the gets to share in the blame because she had her chance and refused. Not because she was scared but because she didn’t want her attackers feeewings to be hurt.
The NYC Prosecutor has a case based upon the female hotel employee’s complaint.
The French woman who claims she was raped by the suspect in France, during year 2002, has had a change of heart. Or, perhaps it is more important to defend “the honor” of France and a French rapist who tried to sexually attack an American in America. How noble of Ms. Banone, is there a French civilian award that she can be given?
The best option for NYC DA’s department is to proceed with what they have and prosecute this creep to the full extent of the law. No deals,just pure prosecutorial law.