Fresh complaint filed against Strauss-Kahn

THE Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary inquiry into a complaint filed by French writer Tristane Banon alleging an attempted rape by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The case throws up a new headache for the Frenchman, who is in New York fighting sex assault charges that brought his career at the IMF crashing to an end and have likely killed his chances of running for French president next year.

Strauss-Kahn is expected to counter claim against Banon — a routine procedure in such a case in France. His lawyers declined to comment last night.