NEW YORK — Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn was thought to be heading to his native France on Saturday, leaving the United States behind after the collapse of a sensational sexual-assault case that cost him his job and possibly his French presidential ambitions.
Strauss-Kahn and his wife were thought to be on a flight from New York to Paris after being spotted arriving at the Air France terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, dogged by a crowd of cameras. They did not say where they were going as they headed for security, but French media have reported Strauss-Kahn was expected to board a plane to Paris on Saturday.
It would be the diplomat and economist’s first return to his native France since his May arrest on charges of forcing a hotel housekeeper to perform oral sex and trying to rape her.
The maid, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, is pressing her claims in a lawsuit. Strauss-Kahn denies the allegations. The Associated Press
