The trailer for "Room 2806: The DSK Affair" has been released by Netflix. A documentary series produced by the French Jalil Lespert which gives a voice to the alleged victims.
The DSK affair will undoubtedly remain one of the most significant episodes of the 5th Republic. A maddening scenario worthy of Netflix's "true crime" series but also a sordid case of sexual assault in which the alleged victim will have definitely been badly handled. Reminder of the facts: in 2011, the president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, PS favorite in the 2012 presidential elections, was accused of sexual assault and attempted rape by Nafissatou Dialo, a maid of the Sofitel hotel in New York.
Nine years later, the case therefore has its documentary series in four episodes: Room 2806: The DSK Case, which will be uploaded on Monday, December 7, 2020 on Netflix. At the helm of the project, the French actor and director Jalil Lespert (Yves Saint Laurent, Versailles). Its producer, Philippe Levasseur, explains to HuffingtonPost: "The DSK affair, or rather the DSK cases, had an international impact and went far beyond a news item. They touch on several social issues, themes that remain relevant. It is a kind of #MeToo ahead of time, with testimonials from women, exceptional for the time, who are pioneers ". A salutary point of view, at a time when we expect a form of rehabilitation of victims.
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Why "Room 2806: The DSK Affair" is an important project
No actor will slip into the skin of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which is not a docu-fiction. VSroom 2806: The DSK Affair is based on journalistic surveys and is accompanied by archive images as well as numerous filmed interviews. A huge job that lasted almost two and a half years. In addition to the Sofitel affair, the episodes will evoke the investigation for abuse of influence and authority opened in 2008, within the framework of intimate relations with Piroska Nagy (an economist employed by the IMF), but also the case Tristane Banon and the file of Carlton de Lille (the famous episode "Dodo la Saumure"). Among the witnesses interviewed were Tristane Banon and Nafissatou Diallo. "I wanted people to hear me, even if they didn't believe me", affirms it from the first images.
DSK, meanwhile, refused any request for an interview. "There are obviously very conflicting sides in this case, so our rule from the start has been to have the widest possible panel in the spirit of fairness", explains producer Philippe Levasseur. As RTL reminds us, the cases cited in the series "have no legal consequences" because "the files fall one after the other: complaint abandoned, discharge, prescription, financial agreement follow one another". Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always said he was not guilty and the judge in charge of the Sofitel case abandoned the proceedings at the request of the prosecutor after three months of investigation, in August 2011. And a financial agreement has was concluded with Nafissatou Diallo.
Latest twist to date, just three days before the release of the docu series, Dominique Strauss-Kahn published a short text on his social networks indicating that "for the first time", he would give "his truth", in a documentary film about his life slated for fall 2021. Not sure we want to watch it.
Room 2806: The DSK Affair, December 7 on Netflix.