DNA of Strauss - Kahn "linked to maid".

 Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being held under house arrest in New York DNA found on the clothing of a hotel in New York maid, who was accused of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of sexual assault against it matches that of the former head of the FMIDire of the media reports to the United States.

The unconfirmed cited sources close to the investigation.

Testing more than the room where the alleged attack took place are pending.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn denies the charges and resigned as head of the Monetary Fund International week last to defend himself.

He is under house arrest in an apartment in New York, after the judge granted bail of 1 m $ (￡ 620 000) last week.

Other tests

Reports on DNA samples came after the authorities analyzed 32-old hotel maid work clothing years who said that she was assaulted in the Sofitel New York near Times Square, on May 14.

Police and judicial spokesman refused to confirm the reports, carried by the Associated Press and ABC News, among others.

Investigators are reported to the realization of new tests on samples taken from the carpet and other surfaces in the hotel room.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn is charged with seven counts including four charges of felony - two of criminal sexual acts, one of attempted rape and sexual violence - more than three crime offences, including illegal imprisonment.

His accuser, a Guinean State West African immigrant, told the authorities that Mr. Strauss-Kahn had approached him after she is in her hotel room to clean.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn defence team is expected to argue that he had a sexual relationship, but that it was consensual.

"Forensic evidence, we believe, will not be compatible with a forced meeting," the lawyer of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, Benjamin Brafman, said.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, is due to enter a formal plea on June 6.

It was considered as a main candidate to be the next French presidential candidate of centre-left up to that news of the charges.

In France, the newspaper the world reported that "people farm" to President Nicolas Sarkozy knew more on the privacy of Mr Strauss-Kahn was public knowledge.

The newspaper stated that those closest to Nicolas Sarkozy have been touting of information, a leak of a report of police, suggested Mr. Strauss Kahn was taken kerb crawling in a known red light district in Paris.