Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail and sent to an unspecified temporary home in Lower Manhattan where he will be detained under armed guard.
An initial location for Strauss-Kahn to be detained had fallen through as although he may have been granted bail he was finding it difficult to find a new home in New York.
The former head of the International Monetary Fund was hoping to move into a $14,000 (£8,600) a month apartment in the luxurious Bristol Plaza building in the upper east side of Manhattan after a judge bailed him on Thursday while he fights charges of attempted rape of a hotel chambermaid.
Strauss-Kahn's $1m bail stipulates that he must be kept under house arrest, wear an electronic tag to monitor his movements and hire a $200,000-a-month gun-toting security team authorised to use force if he should attempt to flee.
"I expect you will be here when we need you," Judge Michael Obus said on granting bail. "If there is the slightest problem, we can withdraw conditions."
Strauss-Kahn's wife, Anne Sinclair, a former journalist, had hired the apartment. But news of this abode attracted a media scrum outside the building and objections from residents. Police had to put up barricades to hold back the TV crews and cameramen.
Speaking anonymously, one resident said the media commotion outside was the first news he had heard of Strauss-Kahn's arrival. "It's outrageous. You [‘d] think someone would have told us. I am going to object to this," he said. » | Dominic Rushe in New York | Friday, May 20, 2011
