Back in France, the spotlight fell on a young journalist and writer: Tristane Banon, who had also accused DSK, as he was known, of attempted rape years before. As the life of DSK’s American accuser, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo was picked over by US prosecutors, the French media meanwhile was busy deconstructing Banon. Charges were also dropped in France, where prosecutors stated there was a lack of evidence of attempted rape. She says he jumped on her, forced his hands into her pants, groped her breasts and attempted to rape her. “I made a legal complaint for attempted rape, which was dropped, but the prosecutor recognised I had been sexually assaulted.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 04:52 UTC