2024-04-18 10:09:28
Now the… difficult things begin for Dominique Strauss-Kahn as, according to reports in the foreign press, after – at least for the time being – he escaped from the iron prison, from now on he is called upon to manage a new crisis. And certainly not political, but domestic, since the former director of the IMF owes his parole to his wife Anne Sinclair.
Information indicates that Sinclair will naturally ask her husband for an explanation about what happened with the maid. Besides, the total of 6,000,000 dollars he paid to get him out of Rikers prison in New York is not a small amount.
Both Anne Sinclair and Strauss-Kahn’s daughter were early yesterday in the courtroom where the ex-IMF strongman’s bail request was to be heard, and television cameras captured both their emotion and their anxiety over the outcome of the case. .
Dominique Strauss-Kahn will now live under house arrest in a Manhattan apartment rented by his wife. At the same time, he will be controlled electronically, while an armed bodyguard – whom he will pay himself – will be his shadow for the next period. It is even remarkable that Strauss-Kahn, in order to obtain his release, offered to renounce his rights as a French citizen.
In court on June 6
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s new appointment with the American judiciary was set for June 6, 2011. During the hearing that will take place then, the defendant will be asked to plead guilty or not guilty to the seven charges against him. If he pleads guilty, there will be no trial, while if he pleads not guilty, then the trial will begin. According to experts, the former IMF director could also try to reach a plea deal, but that would mean he would plead guilty to at least one of the charges against him – in exchange for a sentence less than the 74 years in prison that faces
George Trapeziotis
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