Accused IMF Rapist’s Electronic Hotel Key May Damn or Save Him

Everyone ’s used to the ubiquitous swiping hotel fundamental card — but what you might not know is that your key holdsa account of every time that door closes . And when you ’re accused of raping the housemaid , this record ’s important .

Dominique Strauss - Kahn , French ( former ) head of the IMF , is blame with forcing himself on his maidservant when she was forebode to his elbow room for a routine linen job . While the topic of what happen inwardly — rape or no rape — is dispute , his room ’s door has an account that ca n’t be contend , the New York Times report : “ [ The hotel ] would have a track record of her using the cay to gain access code , ” explains a rep from a hotel key manufacturing firm . “ They should have a disc of the door remaining open for X full point of time , and the door lock being actuate again . The system can differentiate between the guest ’s visiting card Florida key and the housekeeper ’s master paint . ”

So the key could help tack together together the scene . Was the door shut behind the maid at the clock time she allege ? If so , that ’s imprisonment . Was it left open or ajar in accordance with hotel insurance policy ? If so , for how long ? These mundane door details from a little charge plate card might either set Strauss - Kahn barren or send him to prison house .

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