But I have to admit this story is really weird. The backstory here is that the two people seen celebrating in the video are part of Sofitel/Accor's security division, which is headed by a former French intelligence official with very close ties to Sarkozy. And the morning of the arrest, DSK received a text from a friend who worked in the UMP warning him that the UMP was hacking his text messages.
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DSK: le journaliste Edward Epstein demande à Accor de diffuser la vidéo Publié le 27.11.2011, 21h25 | Mise à jour : 21h48
Journalist Edward Epstein demands that Accor release the video
The journalist Edward Epstein, who rekindled the DSK saga by pointing out shadowy aspects of the Sofitel affair, is demanding that Accor release the images showing two people celebrating after listening to Nafissatou Diallo's story, he told AFP Sunday.
The American journalist claims in his investigative article that the New York prosecutor has in hand Sofitel surveillance videotapes in which two employees are seen celebrating for three minutes after having listened to the hotel maid accuse DSK of sexual crimes.
He refers to "an extraordinary celebration dance."
But Sofitel, part of the Accor group, responded Sunday, assuring in a statement that the scene lasts 8 seconds, that there was "no extraordinary celebration dance," and that "the two employees questioned categorically denied that this exchange had" any relation with the DSK case.
"Accor has changed its story. Let them release the whole video and we'll see if [the dance of joy] is ordinary or extraordinary," Epstein told AFP. In speaking of a "change of story" by the Accor group, Epstein is referring to an article in Saturday's Figaro in which "a source close to the [Accor] group" had indicated that no trace of any such video had been found.