Sex worker denies Strauss-Kahn took part in gang rape

Almost a year to the day that former IMF chief and French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted a chamber maid in a New York hotel, a Belgian sex-worker has refuted claims made by a fellow escort girl that he took part in a gang rape in a Washington hotel in December 2010. 

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The first woman, known as Marion, claimed she was forced to have sex with Strauss-Kahn while another man at the party, David Roquet, held her down by her arms.

“I did not scream out, but I clearly said in a loud voice that I didn’t want to,” she told Le Parisien newspaper. She has not pressed charges over the claim.

But Aurelie Dalvaulx, who was in the room at the time of the alleged rape, said her story is “complete rubbish”.

“If she had really said clearly ‘no’ I would have intervened,” she told Le Parisen. “If anything like that had happened I would have done whatever was necessary. She is a big girl, she knows what to expect at these evenings and I did not hear her say ‘no’ or see her arms being held down by David Roquet.”

Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have already denounced the claims saying their client “absolutely contests having committed the slightest act of violence of any nature whatsoever”.

Strauss-Kahn, two businessmen and a police chief have already been charged in the so-called ‘Carlton affair with "aggravated pimping in an organised gang" for allegedly organising a prostitution ring for orgies in France, the United States and elsewhere.