Strauss-Kahn and Tristane Banon face to face at police station
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Tristane Banon, the French writer who claims he tried to rape her in 2003, were brought face to face at a Paris police station on Thursday.
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The confrontation is part of police attempts to investigate the accusations before deciding whether to press charges.
No lawyers were present and such an encounter is not uncommon in the French justice system.
It could be the final stage in the police probe, after which a prosecutor could decide that there is no case, or that the alleged crime took place too long ago, or that the case should go to trial.
Banon first made her allegations public on a television programme in 2007, but only took her complaint to the police after Strauss-Kahn was charged with the attempted rape of New York chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo, charges which were later dropped.
Strauss-Kahn has admitted making an advance to Banon but denies any use of violence, and has lodged a lawsuit for slander.
"I want him in front of me so he can look into my eyes and say to my face that I imagined it," Banon said in a recent interview.
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