Dominique Strauss-Kahn held in Rikers Island Jail

No holiday camp for Strauss-Kahn

The City of New York has a Correction Department and their choicest facility is Rikers Island. Where better than this to send the head of the International Monetary Fund. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has moved from a $3,000-a-night penthouse suite to a cell in one of America's most notorious prisons. He will also get turkey burger dinners. What a thought.

Far from correcting many of the inmates, there seems to be a culture of fear, favouritism and being preyed upon. Mr Strauss-Kahn will have a one-person cell, for his own security, officials say. "This is not about isolating the inmate from any human contact. This is about preventing the inmate from being victimised or harmed in some way as a result of his high profile," a spokesman for New York's Department of Correction said. You don't say!

If they were serious about correcting the criminals and the alleged criminals on remand why not get Strauss-Kahn to give them lessons in financial management. Then the corrected characters could set about reforming the outside world. Who better than them to spot wrongdoing!

Dominique Strauss-Kahn in second sex allegation

Tristane Banon

Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears to be caught between his political ambitions and his history as an alleged womaniser. Only hours after being accused by a chamber maid that she was sexually attacked by the IMF chief, a second accuser has stepped forward. Tristane Banon, the 31-year-old god-daughter of Strauss-Kahn’s second wife Brigitte Guillemette, said he attacked her almost a decade ago. Ms Banon will now tell French detectives about the attempted rape, which took place in an anonymous studio flat in Paris in 2002. Strauss-Kahn lured the then 21-year-old trainee journalist her to the property under the promise of an interview, and then started to rip her clothes off.

‘I kicked him, I called him a rapist, he didn’t seem to care,’ said Ms Banon in earlier interviews, in which she also described Strauss-Kahn as acting like a ‘rutting chimpanzee’. Does she know what a rutting chimpanzee is like? And why did she hold off telling the police before now? Apparently because she was afraid of being 'defined by the story' of being attacked by a senior politician. Not anymore it would appear.

If Mr.Strauss-Kahn has done anything wrong, then it should be dealt with by the courts as appropriate. However, if this is some evil set-up, I'd be the first to admonish those concerned. True victims of rape need assurances that society will be supportive, non-judgmental and provide justice. Saying you were raped or sexually molested in order to gain from it is despicable. And setting others up to say things is as well. I hope nobody is telling porkies!

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