Room 2806: a documentary delves into the affair that cost DSK its presidential campaign

On May 14, 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested on the tarmac at JFK airport as he was about to return to France.

The images go around the world.

Nafissatou Diallo, a maid at the Sofitel hotel in New York where he was staying, accuses the president of the International Monetary Fund and leftist favorite in the 2012 presidential election, of "attempted rape" and "sexual assault ".

If the charges against him were dropped in criminal proceedings in August of the same year, the case stretched until December 2012 before being concluded with a financial agreement.

Produced by the Capa agency,

was directed by the Frenchman Jalil Lespert, to whom we notably owe the film

in 2013. In addition to retracing this striking news item, the documentary returns on the course of the politician, attacked on several occasions.

The other DSK cases

Over the course of the four episodes, filmed between April 2019 and fall 2020, Lespert operates many flashbacks.

First with the investigation for nepotism opened in 2008 against DSK, while he was working within the IMF.

The businessman was then suspected of having an intimate relationship with one of his employees, Piroska Nagy.

Another story, that of Tristane Banon.

In July 2011, when Nafissatou Diallo accuses him, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the target of a complaint for facts dating back to 2003. If the case is closed, because of the prescribed facts, it contributes to taint a little more the reputation of the politician.

Finally, the Lille Carlton file, in which the name of DSK appears and, for which he obtains an acquittal in 2015 before the criminal court.

This documentary, rich in many testimonies including that of Nafissatou Diallo, gives voice to those who observed, experienced and precipitated the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

After two and a half years of investigation,

will be available on December 7 on Netflix.