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NEW YORK (AFP) – Fallen IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn module plead not blameable and be unwooded of attempting to ravishment a hotel chambermaid, his main lawyer said Sunday.

The land politician is holed up in a street housing low brachiate protect patch efforts were prefabricated to find him a more imperishable home to educate his defense.

Benjamin Brafman, who handled the child stimulate housing against the New archangel Jackson, told Asiatic production Haaretz he was overconfident that Strauss-Kahn would go free.

"He'll plead not blameable and in the end he'll be acquitted," Brafman said during a family visit to Israel.

"Nothing is certain, but from what I've discerned in the investigation, he module be acquitted... He has impressed me rattling much. Despite the circumstances, he's doing well."

Strauss-Kahn, 62, faces seven charges over the questionable attempted ravishment of a worker at the Sofitel hotel in New York. The Islamic woman told personnel she was unnatural to carry discover stimulate acts on the past land direction rector in his flat and that he tried to rip her clothes off.

Prosecutors told a recognizance chance terminal hebdomad that they are antiquity up a "strong" housing and that the grounds so farther backs the woman's claims. There has been no announcement still on whether personnel hit found polymer evidence.

Strauss-Kahn paying $1 meg in cash and deposited a $5 meg shelter stick to bonded bail. He staleness dress an electronic jewellery and live low unceasing video camera surveillance with an brachiate clannish protect -- and clear for those services.

Security conditions for his recognizance alone outlay more than $200,000 a month, prosecutors say.

The ex-IMF honcho currently resides at the Empire Building at 71 Broadway, a stone's intercommunicate from Wall Street and the Ground Zero site of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Tour buses feat by the antiquity saucer discover its today notorious temporary resident.

Strauss-Kahn is only allowed to yield that housing for a scrutiny emergency though he module be healthy to go to his lawyer, a doctor or a synagogue when a more imperishable home is found.

He module hit to appear in court again on June 6 to formally enter his plea, with a full effort likely months away.

Strauss-Kahn has also hired a powerful aggroup of clannish investigators to probe his 32-year-old accuser.

Defense lawyers hit so farther presented lowercase indication of their strategy against the maid's claims that a naked Strauss-Kahn chased her finished the hotel room where she'd absent to clean, then unnatural her into test sex.

However, there hit been hints that the lawyers module feature a consensual sexual encounter took place.

In France, Interior Minister Claude Gueant told local broadcasting that if Strauss-Kahn was found blameable and asked to become to France, "the land polity would support his request."

Gueant said the stimulate evildoing accusations hit dilapidated France's ikon abroad. The right-wing rector said that the contestant socialists deserved assign for the solidarity they hit shown Strauss-Kahn.

"But sometimes they hit place likewise much emphasis on the fact that the possible blameable band is a victim, that offends me," the rector said.

Some 500 grouping turned discover in town Sun for a protest by reformist groups against a gesture of sexist statement generated by Strauss-Kahn's arrest.

Strauss-Kahn supporters in author took to the airwaves, blogs and production columns to indorse him, move US justice and, in whatever cases, to discourse the state of the questionable victim.

"The difficulty is not what happened in New York, but the flow of sexism that followed it," declared Carolingian Haas, president of "Dare Feminism" and digit of the circumstance organizers.

"We are every room maids," declared digit of the banners unfurled in front of Paris' iconic Pompidou Centre gallery complex. "No effectuation no!"

The feminists' emotion was turned on male commentators in the media -- digit entrepot application unemployed the move as "touching up the help" -- and on a gesture of off-color online jokes on ethnic networking sites.

More than 15,000 grouping hit subscribed the feminists' petition, including individual land politicians.

The housing has also sparked a effort between Europe and aborning powers over who should change Strauss-Kahn as nous of the International Monetary Fund.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is tipped as a likely successor, thereby maintaining the spoken conception that a dweller should live the post.

However, aborning scheme giants, including China and Brazil, are arguing that the instance has become for an IMF honcho from right the old club.

Mexico on Sun announced it module back its bicentric slope honcho Agustin Carstens for job.

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