Focus on maid in Strauss-Kahn investigation

LAWYERS for Dominique Strauss-Kahn intend to investigate the hotel maid accusing the former IMF chief of attempted rape for evidence of behavioural problems, according to court documents.

In a nine-page request to prosecutors, the defence attorneys list a series of demands for access to evidence collected against Strauss-Kahn, who is awaiting trial on a €4.1 million bail and bond.

They also seek to have prosecutors barred from accessing emails and phone messages sent to mobile phones and an iPad confiscated from Strauss-Kahn after his shock detention on an Air France plane about to leave New York for Paris on May 14.