ROBIN ROBERTS INTERVIEW WITH NAFISSATOU DIALLO, STRAUSS-KAHN ACCUSER: HER SIDE IN HER WORDS
ABC NEWS, July 25, 2011-- Although her case might be in jeopardy, the hotel maid who accused former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of s*xual assault breaks her silence to ABC's Robin Roberts, saying she initially feared for her own life after the attack.
In her first televised interview, Sofitel maid Nafissatou "Nafi" Diallo vividly recounts details of the allegations, as well as what she describes as her initial shock in learning Strauss-Kahn's identity. "I was watching on the news...and they said he was going to be the next president of France," said Diallo, before also decrying media reports that she is a prostitute. "And I said, 'Oh my God...they're going to kill me, I'm going to die! I know if I was in my country...he's a powerful man like that...[they would] kill me before someone knows what happened to me."
Diallo's TV appearance comes on the heels of a Newsweek interview, which hits newsstands this week. You can read that interview in full here.
Meanwhile, as the AFP is reporting, the Strauss-Kahn team has accused Diallo's attorneys of having "orchestrated an unprecedented number of media events and rallies to bring pressure on the prosecutors in this case after she had to admit her extraordinary efforts to mislead them."
ABC quotes Strauss Kahn's attorneys William W. Taylor and Benjamin Bratman as saying, "Her lawyers know that her claim for money suffers when a fatal blow when the criminal charges are dismissed, as they must be."
In her first televised interview, Sofitel maid Nafissatou "Nafi" Diallo vividly recounts details of the allegations, as well as what she describes as her initial shock in learning Strauss-Kahn's identity. "I was watching on the news...and they said he was going to be the next president of France," said Diallo, before also decrying media reports that she is a prostitute. "And I said, 'Oh my God...they're going to kill me, I'm going to die! I know if I was in my country...he's a powerful man like that...[they would] kill me before someone knows what happened to me."
Diallo's TV appearance comes on the heels of a Newsweek interview, which hits newsstands this week. You can read that interview in full here.
Meanwhile, as the AFP is reporting, the Strauss-Kahn team has accused Diallo's attorneys of having "orchestrated an unprecedented number of media events and rallies to bring pressure on the prosecutors in this case after she had to admit her extraordinary efforts to mislead them."
ABC quotes Strauss Kahn's attorneys William W. Taylor and Benjamin Bratman as saying, "Her lawyers know that her claim for money suffers when a fatal blow when the criminal charges are dismissed, as they must be."
....NEW YORK (AP) — The hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of s*x assault met with prosecutors Wednesday morning for the first time since the district attorney's office publicly announced it had doubts about her credibility.
Nafissatou Diallo arrived at the Manhattan district attorney's office with her attorney Kenneth Thompson and did not speak to reporters. The last meeting between Diallo and prosecutors, in June, ended with her in tears as prosecutors asked about inconsistencies they had uncovered in her past, her attorney has said.
The meeting came one day after the district attorney and Strauss-Kahn's attorneys announced they had agreed to postpone his next court date to Aug. 23, when prosecutors could announce whether or not they will go forward with the case. [...] Diallo, a 32-year-old widowed immigrant from Guinea with a 15-year-old daughter, broke her silence in recent days with interviews in Newsweek and on a series of ABC News programs. It's not clear whether that further widened the rift. Neither the Manhattan District Attorney's office nor her attorney would comment.
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