A French writer and journalist was Monday considering filing charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn after claiming he sexually assaulted her during an interview in 2002, France's AFP news agency reported.
A lawyer for Tristane Banon told AFP she was considering filing charges against the French head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who was charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of a New York hotel maid at the weekend, DPA reported.
In a French television interview in 2007, in which Strauss-Kahn's name was bleeped out, Banon alleged Strauss-Kahn forcibly tried to remove her clothes when she interviewed him for a book project.
Her mother, Anne Mansouret, a politician with Strauss-Kahn's Socialist Party, told French media at the weekend she had talked her daughter out of bringing changes at the time, but now regretted it.
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