19:01 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will make a new plea for bail at a court hearing on Thursday morning, his lawyer says.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, faces a number of charges in the alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid in New York and was denied bail on Monday.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn, on suicide watch at New York’s infamous Rikers Island prison, denies all the charges.<\/p>\n
The maid, 32, has said she is “scared” but will testify against him.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said the new bail hearing would be in Manhattan on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
The IMF chief faces charges of committing a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.<\/p>\n
On Monday a judge in New York denied Mr Strauss-Kahn bail – despite the offer of a $1m (\u00a3618,000) guarantee – saying there was a risk the IMF chief would flee the country. France and the US have no extradition agreement.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Laura Trevelyan in New York says the defence will offer a new package that they hope will convince the judge that Mr Strauss-Kahn will not try to flee while he prepares his defence.<\/p>\n
That could include Mr Strauss-Kahn offering to wear an electronic ankle tag, surrendering his passport and living under very restrictive conditions, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday the maid’s lawyer, Jeffrey Shapiro, said that his client feared for herself and her daughter when she discovered Mr Strauss-Kahn’s identity a day after the incident on 14 May.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said on Monday that the defence believes the forensic evidence “will not be consistent with a forcible encounter”.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Shapiro said there was “nothing consensual about what took place in that hotel room” in New York.<\/p>\n
Mr Shapiro told NBC television that his client was expected to testify before a grand jury later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police have removed a piece of carpet from the Sofitel hotel, in search of evidence to support the maid’s allegation she was forced into an act of oral sex.<\/p>\n
The maid, from the West African nation of Guinea, told police that when she entered the hotel room, Mr Strauss-Kahn came out of the bathroom naked, chased her down and sexually assaulted her before she broke free and fled.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn, one of France’s most high-profile politicians, has been seen as a front-runner in next year’s presidential elections. His arrest has shocked France.<\/p>\n
His wife, former French TV interviewer Anne Sinclair, is thought to be visiting him in the next two days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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