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Credit: Reuters/Charles Platiau PARIS | Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:38pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential contender Francois Hollande will be questioned by police investigating a writer's accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, legal sources said on Tuesday. The lawyer for writer Tristane Banon says she had informed Hollande about the alleged incident in 2003, when he was head of the Socialist Party, raising questions as to how much he knew and whether he should have raised the alarm. Strauss-Kahn, once the party's leading candidate for next year's French presidential election, was arrested by police in New York in May on charges of attempting to rape a hotel maid there. The case has damaged the Socialist Party and threatens to poison the run-up to the election next April, a contest in which Hollande is now the leading contender in the opinion polls. "There's nothing new. Mr Hollande isn't being targeted in particular," the legal source told Reuters, confirming a report in Tuesday's Le Figaro newspaper that the Socialist would be interviewed by investigators. The source did not say when police would question Hollande, but the newspaper said it would be in September. NOTHING TO HIDE Hollande himself told Le Monde newspaper Banon's mother had contacted him at the time of the alleged incident, and he had suggested contacting the police if there was a problem. "I've nothing to hide and nothing to feel uneasy about, but I will not allow this case to be exploited politically," Le Monde quoted him as saying. French police are questioning a number of people with links to the case in a preliminary investigation to establish whether a full inquiry is justified. Banon's mother, Socialist councilor Anne Mansouret, spoke to police last week. According to French news magazine L'Express, Mansouret told police that she herself had once had a consensual but rough sexual encounter with Strauss-Kahn, a one-off event she had previously kept to herself. Mansouret, contacted by Reuters, said she would not comment on what she had told police as part of a closed-doors judicial process or on press reports of that hearing. On Monday, Strauss-Kahn's daughter from his second marriage, Camille Strauss-Kahn, was interviewed. Her mother, Brigitte Guillemette, was questioned on Friday, the legal sources said. Banon filed a legal complaint at the start of July, alleging that Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003 when she went to interview him in a sparsely furnished flat in Paris. Investigators have opened a preliminary probe to assess the merits of the complaint, cross-checking dates and addresses and summoning for questioning people that Banon refers to in her allegation. Strauss-Kahn has filed a counter-claim for defamation. 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