A day after Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, admitted that his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid did not involve violence, constraint or aggression but still constitutes a moral failing on his part, a French writer said, 'she was lucky that sexual encounter with Strauss-Kahn didn't ended in rape'.

Tristane Banon explained why she filed a formal complaint in July alleging that Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in a Paris in 2003.  

"My light-heartedness: I lost it on February 11th 2003,' the Daily Mail quoted Banon, as saying. "This man made me come to a flat...for an interview. He double locked, leaving the keys in the door. Very quickly, we were fighting, it turned bad. If I had not been very lucky, it would have ended in a rape,' she said.