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alfredlester on Thursday, July 14, 2011 5:18:48 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - A French writer Who has Accused form MFI head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of Attempting to Rape Her in 2003 denied on Wednesday she HAD come Under Political pressure to go press charges.
Tristane Banon, 32, the Complaint filed last week over a year she says incident Took place When She Went to interview the French finance minister to form in a Paris apartment.
Many in France Ask Why she Waited eight years to take action Against Strauss-Kahn, Who Was the Socialist Party&&9;s Leading candidate for the 2012 presidential election Until He Was Arrested by New York police in mid-May on charges of Attempting to rape a hotel maid .
Strauss-Kahn denied the charges HAS in New York and filed a counter-complaint for defamation in France Against Banon.
The writer, in Her First TV Interview Since Taking legal action, Banon denied There Was Any Political agenda behind the move and Rejected Charges That She Was Trying to win public care for herself cheap payday advance.
"The People Who Know That I Know I am Being Manipulated Neither nor unstable, be it by the mayor of my town or by the Political Parties of the left or right," She Told France 2 television.
"If I Was doing this to win publicity, it Would Be a Costly very way of doing it," Said Banon, Who Appeared calm and unruffled by Questioning.
Banon Said at the time of the attack Alleged That legal advisors, journalists and Her mother, a local councilor Representing Strauss-Kahn&&9;s Socialist Party, Advised Against Her pressing charges.
Banon WAS Interviewed by language police on Thursday in the first step in a Preliminary Investigation of Her accusations.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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