CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: DSK’s French Accuser to File Attempted Rape Complaint. “The lawyer for French writer Tristane Banon announced today that his client intends to file attempted rape charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Paris. ‘I will send the complaint to the public prosecutor’s office tomorrow,’ lawyer David Koubbi told the French weekly L’Express, ‘and they will receive it on Wednesday.’ The move comes only days after prosecutors in New York conceded that their case against Strauss-Kahn had been weakened by questions surrounding the credibility of a maid who has accused Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in May at the Sofitel Hotel in New York.”