'Was lucky that sex with Strauss-Kahn didn't ended in rape'

The French journalist who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, has said that she was lucky enough that the sexual encounter with the former International Monetary Fund chief didn't ended in a rape

During a French television interview, Tristane Banon explained why she filed a formal complaint in July alleging that Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in a Paris in 2003.
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"My light-heartedness: I lost it on February 11th 2003," the Daily Mail quoted Banon, as saying.
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"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 and it turned bad. If I had not been very lucky, it would have ended in a rape," she said.
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"When I see the way in which I'm crushed today, I say to myself that if I had reported it at the time I would have been on the verge of suicide," she added.
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Meanwhile, Paris prosecutors have not decided whether or not to charge Strauss-Kahn in the Banon case.
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He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.