Strauss-Kahn: Rape bid claim 'imaginary'

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn faced a potential new sexual assault investigation after a young French writer said she would formally accuse him of trying to rape her during a 2002 interview.

With France debating Mr Strauss-Kahn’s possible return to presidential politics, he hit back at author Tristane Banon’s plans to take him to court, calling her account “imaginary” and saying he planned to file a criminal complaint of slander.