DSK Paris sex probe begins

FRENCH detectives interviewed a young French writer yesterday over her claim that former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003, a judicial official said.

Paris police have been asked by investigating magistrates to look into the writer Tristane Banon’s allegation against Strauss-Kahn, who is also accused of sex crimes in New York.

The police are probing a complaint lodged by 32-year-old Banon that Strauss-Kahn assaulted her in a Paris flat in 2003 as she interviewed him for a book she was writing.

Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers are planning to sue Banon for defamation over the allegation, which she first made in 2007.