Rape Case:
Guineans fuming over press treatment ff attempted rape victim
Guineans fuming over press treatment ff attempted rape victim
By
Fungai Maboreke/GIN
When former Socialist candidate for the presidency, Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, was released from house arrest last week when new evidence
challenged the charges against him for the attempted rape of an African hotel
maid at a luxury hotel in NYC, the move enraged many of her fellow countrymen.
Strauss-Kahn
(known as “DSK”) was released on allegations that the victim – a young Muslim
woman from Guinea
- might have lied to the Grand Jury and misrepresented certain facts.
Until
Friday, Strauss Kahn was held in detention since his arrest May 15th while
seated in a plane bound for his home country France.
Mamoudou
Diallo, eldest brother to the Guinean hotel maid, disputed the accusations
against his sister that included headlines in the New York Post calling her a
prostitute. "They're nothing but lies, all to discredit my sister,“ he
said bitterly. A lawsuit has been filed
against the Post, alleging slander.
The
alleged victim of sexual assault comes from the village
of Thiacoule, 280 miles from the
capital Conakry.
It is a staunch Muslim community which survives on communal farming and cattle.
She was described as a hard worker.
Thierno
Maadjo Sow, president of the Guinean Organization for Human Rights asserted
that, "In this case it's all about
the strong against the weak."
"Even
if they find something compromising about this young lady, that doesn't prove that nothing happened and that
Strauss-Kahn didn't try to do something he shouldn't have," added
Souleymane Bah, a communications expert.
“What
matters most in this case is this: is DSK guilty yes or no? Did he try to rape
this young woman yes or no? It's this question we need to find an answer
to," Bah said. Strauss-Kahn still faces charges that he sexually assaulted
the young woman.
Meanwhile,
in France,
a thirty-two-year old French author, Tristane Banon, has filed new charges
against DSK. Her mother is a prominent
member of the French Socialist party. Banon claims Strauss-Kahn tried to rape
her when she interviewed him in 2002.
w/pix
of NY Post headline and alleged victim
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