Another woman may file complaint

Banon,who was 22 at the time of the incident,said she had asked to talk to Strauss-Kahn for a book of interviews with leading French figures about the biggest mistake they ever made.

She told how he had insisted on holding her hand during the interview and then made advances to her. It ended really badly. We ended up fighting. It finished really violently,the clip shows her saying. We fought on the floor. It wasnt a case of a couple of slaps. I kicked him,he unhooked my bra,he tried to open my jeans, she said. The politician acted,she said,like a rutting chimpanzee.

Banon did not file charges after her mother,a local Socialist Party councillor,persuaded her against proceedings against a politician who was a family friend. She says she now regrets that decision.