New York (CNN) -- Counsel for international economist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is jailed on sexual assault charges, filed a new appeal on Wednesday seeking his release on bail from Rikers Island. 
 
 "We respectfully submit that the following bail conditions ... eliminate any concern that Mr. Strauss-Kahn would or could leave this court's jurisdiction," wrote lawyer Shawn P. Naunton. He then said the International Monetary Fund chief had agreed to post $1 million in cash, to be confined to home detention in Manhattan with electronic monitoring, and to turn over his U.N. travel document. The appeal noted that the Frenchman has already surrendered his passport. 
 
 A source close to the Strauss-Kahn defense told CNN's Jeffrey Toobin that a deal is in the works that could result in his being freed on bail as early as Thursday. The deal is tentative and could still fall through, but the defense was optimistic that Strauss-Kahn could be released soon. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn's bail appeal to the state Supreme Court will be heard Thursday. It adds conditions that were not in the appeal turned down Monday by a criminal court judge and describes the accused as "a loving husband and father, and a highly regarded international diplomat, lawyer, politician, economist and professor, with no prior criminal record." 
 
 It notes that he has been married for more than a decade and has four children from a prior marriage, one of whom lives in New York, where she is a graduate student at Columbia University. 
 
 The case has captured worldwide attention. Strauss-Kahn is not only head of the IMF, but had been considered the French Socialist Party's best hope to unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's elections. 
 
 He is accused of sexual assault and the attempted rape of a 32-year-old Guinean maid in his Sofitel hotel suite. Prosecutors have opposed his release, asserting he is a flight risk. 
 
 Meanwhile, the alleged victim was to testify Wednesday before a grand jury in Manhattan Criminal Court, according to her attorney. "I want her to feel safe," said Jeffrey Shapiro. "To the extent that his freedom would impair her feeling of safety, that would deeply concern me." 
 
 The woman, a widow who lives with her child in New York's borough of the Bronx, will deny the claim that the incident was consensual, Shapiro said. 
 
 She has worked at the hotel for three years and is considered a good employee, the managing director of Sofitel said in a statement. 
 
 "Her world has been turned upside down," her attorney, Shapiro, said. "She is very scared about her future." 
 
 Prosecutors allege that a naked Strauss-Kahn, 62, chased the housekeeping employee through his Manhattan hotel suite on Saturday and sexually assaulted her. 
 
 But attorney Benjamin Brafman said during Strauss-Kahn's arraignment Monday that was not the case. "The forensic evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible account, and we believe there is a very, very defensible case," he said. 
 
 The IMF chief faces an array of charges, including two counts of first-degree criminal sexual act, one count of first-degree attempted rape, one count of first-degree sexual abuse, one count of second-degree unlawful imprisonment, one count of forcible touching and one count of third-degree sexual abuse. 
 
 "He grabbed the victim's chest without consent, attempted to remove her pantyhose" and forcibly grabbed her between her legs, the complaint against Strauss-Kahn says. He also forced her to perform oral sex on him, Assistant District Attorney John McConnell said at the arraignment. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn allegedly committed the offenses at noon, checked out of the hotel at 12:28 p.m. and went to a previously scheduled lunch about 12:45 p.m., according to a document supporting his motion to approve bail. The lunch was with his daughter, according to a source with knowledge of the case. 
 
 After lunch, he was driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport and boarded an Air France flight that was scheduled to depart at 4:45 p.m., the bail document says. It adds that he had bought the ticket the week before. 
 
 As Strauss-Kahn sat in a first-class seat awaiting takeoff and a planned meeting the next day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, followed by a meeting with European finance ministers on Monday in Brussels, his world of luxury and power came crashing down. 
 
 Police, alerted by hotel staff to the maid's accusations, ordered him off the plane and placed him in custody. 
 
 The law enforcement source said Strauss-Kahn was examined for scratches and DNA samples were taken, and investigators searched for other evidence in the suite, including possible bodily fluids from both individuals. Strauss-Kahn consented to the testing after investigators were prepared to execute a search warrant, the source said. 
 
 Forensic test results could be ready as soon as Strauss-Kahn's Friday court appearance. 
 
 Last month, Strauss-Kahn discussed the possibility that a woman might falsely accuse him of attacking her. 
 
 In an April 28 interview with the French daily newspaper Liberation, he imagined "a woman who would be raped in a parking lot and who would then be promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story," the paper reported in an article published Monday. 
 
 Speaking to the paper about suggestions he could become France's Socialist Party candidate for president, Strauss-Kahn discussed "the long -- too long from his point of view -- campaign to come and the difficulties he will have to overcome," the paper reported. 
 
 "He sees three in the following order: 'Money, women and my Jewishness.' " He added, "Yes, I love women ... so what? For years they have been talking about photos of massive orgies, but I have not seen anything. ... Why don't they show them!" 
 
 At New York's Rikers Island jail complex, Strauss-Kahn was placed on suicide watch, a routine procedure in such high-profile cases, two sources with direct knowledge of the case told CNN. 
 
 Analysts suggest his career and political future are now in jeopardy, if not already dead. 
 
 "I do not see how he can perform his duties as director of the IMF," Jean-Francois Cope, secretary-general of France's ruling UMP party, told reporters Wednesday. "So, by definition, this issue should be resolved in the coming days." 
 
 The comments came a day after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Strauss-Kahn is "obviously not in a position to run the IMF," and Austria's finance minister Maria Fekter said, "He should think about whether he is damaging the institution," and consider stepping down. 
 
 A former French finance minister, national legislator and economics professor in Paris, Strauss-Kahn became the IMF's 10th managing director in November 2007. 
 
 While the top job at the World Bank is customarily held by an American, the IMF chief is traditionally European. 
 
 But as pressure mounts over Strauss-Kahn's possible resignation, there appears growing sentiment among developing nations to buck the trend. 
 
 Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega said that succession should be based "on merit" and the position "should be considered (among) candidates from emerging countries," Portugal's official news agency reported Wednesday. 
 
 South Africa's finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, said a new IMF chief should come from a developing nation, 
 
 "We need to have an inclusive system," said Colin Bradford, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former chief economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development 
 
 "The West needs to include the emerging markets and encourage merit based leadership," he said. "We need an inclusive system, otherwise we're not going to have a structure that can manage the planet and implement a fair and legitimate system of global guidance." 
 
 Bradford suggested the scandal is an opportunity to change the unofficial policy, but others like German government spokesman Christoph Steegmans said the institution's leadership should remain European. 
 
 In Strauss-Kahn's absence, First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky has been named acting managing director, "and the fund continues its normal work," said IMF spokesman William Murray. 
 
 According to a poll released Wednesday by the Conseil Sondage Analyses (Council of Polling Analysis), 57% of French people think Strauss-Kahn was victimized. 
 
 Still, 54% said they think Strauss-Kahn's Socialist Party can win in the 2012 presidential race without him. 
 
 CNN's Susan Candiotti, Deb Feyerick, Ivan Watson, Adam Reiss, Richard Roth, Saskya Vandoorne, Caroline Paterson, David Ariosto, Raelyn Johnson and Jim Bittermann contributed to this report. ||||| Paris (CNN) -- A French writer filed a criminal complaint Tuesday against embattled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, alleging attempted rape, according to her attorney David Koubbi. 
 
 Tristane Banon, 32, filed the new claim just as a separate New York case against the French financier appeared to be on shaky ground. 
 
 A Strauss-Kahn lawyer in France said he had filed a counterclaim against Banon for "false declarations." 
 
 French prosecutors are expected to review the complaint and determine whether there is enough evidence to press charges. 
 
 Though the alleged attack occurred in 2003, the statute of limitations on attempted rape is 10 years. 
 
 In an interview with the French news-magazine L'Express, Banon said she decided to act because she was fed up with being labelled a liar, having not previously filed a criminal complaint. 
 
 Banon said Strauss-Kahn's alleged assault had been widely discussed in light of the charges he faces in New York and she now had a chance to tell her own story and be listened to. 
 
 "If I want one day to put an end to this hell of the past eight years, it has to go to court," she told the magazine. 
 
 Asked about the delay in coming forward to report the attempted rape, Banon said it was difficult for all women in this situation. She added that she had been reluctant to go over and over the details, when all she wanted to do was forget about it. 
 
 It was even harder to face that prospect when the she knew that the attempt would likely fail, she told L'Express, because no-one would believe the word of a young writer over a powerful figure like Strauss-Kahn. 
 
 Asked if she had concerns about repercussions for bringing the complaint now, Banon told L'Express she feared reprisals because she was a thorn in the side of the former IMF chief 
 
 On Tuesday, her attorney told CNN that the alleged attack had taken place with "extreme violence." 
 
 The new legal fireworks came after questions arose about the truthfulness of a housekeeper who alleged that Strauss-Kahn, 62, attacked her in his New York hotel suite in May. 
 
 Banon said the decision to file the complaint had been taken with her lawyer in mid-June and had not been affected by the sudden crumbling of the case against Strauss-Kahn in New York, according to her interview with L'Express. 
 
 One of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers in New York, Benjamin Brafman, on Monday declined to comment on the allegations in France. 
 
 Banon's mother, Socialist politician Anne Mansouret, said shortly after the housekeeper's accusations were splashed across front pages around the world that her daughter had been attacked by Strauss-Kahn in 2003 but that she had discouraged her at the time from filing charges against him. 
 
 Mansouret, a member of parliament, said she cautioned Banon not to file a police report at the time for fear it would hurt her journalism career. 
 
 On Tuesday, she said she had not realized before how much her daughter was affected by the alleged incident. 
 
 "At the time, I never thought that it had traumatized her to such a point," she told CNN affiliate network BFM. 
 
 Banon "expects to be destroyed" after filing the complaint against Strauss-Kahn, her mother added. 
 
 But she must "find the combative instinct that is needed to withstand the shock and say to herself, 'OK, I must do this and I will carry it out,'" Mansouret said. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn was never charged in connection with the alleged attack on Banon. 
 
 But in light of the charges against Strauss-Kahn after the alleged incident at a Sofitel hotel in New York, Koubbi said a few weeks ago that he and Banon had considered filing a complaint. 
 
 Koubbi said the cases were not connected. 
 
 "I don't see any reason why these two cases should be joined, because either the prosecutor has enough elements to condemn Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the United States -- and if he does, he should do it -- or he needs to bring two cases together to get a conviction," he said in June. 
 
 "In that case, we do not want to participate," he added. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn's attorney in France, Leon Lef Forster, did not respond to requests for comment on the allegations in May. 
 
 Mansouret recently pulled out of the Socialist Party presidential primaries. Strauss-Kahn had been a front-runner for the party nomination until the New York arrest, and suggestions that the case was floundering have revived talk of his chances in next year's presidential elections. 
 
 Mansouret described herself last week as "the woman who embarrasses the Socialist Party." 
 
 "I am ... a sort of collateral damage in the DSK affair. I knew for a long time that my political career was sealed with this bomb, but I didn't imagine that this bitter past could be revived so violently," she wrote Friday on the Rue89 website, referring to the alleged attack in New York. 
 
 In May, Mansouret said that in 2003, her journalist daughter had interviewed Strauss-Kahn in his office in the National Assembly. 
 
 However, after the interview, Banon received a text message from Strauss-Kahn, saying he was not happy with the interview and asking if he could speak with her again, Mansouret said. 
 
 After Banon arrived at the address Strauss-Kahn had sent her, he locked the door to the room they were in, took her hand and grabbed her arm, according to Mansouret. 
 
 Banon told him to let her go, and the incident ended with the two struggling on the floor, Mansouret said. Banon managed to escape the apartment and locked herself in her car, where she called her mother. 
 
 Mansouret said she arrived about an hour and a half later to find her daughter still locked in the car and looking "roughed up." The heel of one shoe was broken, Mansouret recalled. 
 
 But Mansouret told her daughter not to file a complaint out of concern that she would become known as Strauss-Kahn's victim. 
 
 CNN does not typically identify sexual assault victims, but Mansouret said her daughter gave permission for her name to be disclosed. 
 
 In New York, the prosecution's case against Strauss-Kahn has been shaken in recent days after sources revealed that the housekeeper at the Sofitel hotel had been less than truthful with investigators. Within two days after the alleged attack occurred, she spoke by phone with a boyfriend in an Arizona jail in a recorded conversation. 
 
 A source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that the housekeeper said "she's fine and this person is rich and there's money to be made," as originally reported by The New York Times. 
 
 The 32-year-old immigrant has admitted to prosecutors that she lied about her whereabouts following the alleged attack, the details of an asylum application and information she put on tax forms, according to documents filed in court Friday by prosecutors. 
 
 Prosecutors said Friday that the woman also admitted to lying about being a victim of a gang rape. 
 
 In angry remarks delivered outside the courthouse, the woman's attorney, Kenneth Thompson, acknowledged problems with his client's credibility. But the bottom line, he said, is that she was attacked. 
 
 "That was true the day it happened, and it is true today," Thompson said. 
 
 "She has described that sexual assault many times to the prosecutors and to me. And she has never once changed a single thing about that account." 
 
 On Tuesday, the attorney for the alleged victim's announced that she had filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Post and five of its reporters, after the newspaper reported that the woman was a prostitute. 
 
 The woman has accused the newspaper of publishing articles with false and defamatory information in the effort to bolster sales. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the New York Post, Suzi Halpin, responded to the lawsuit Tuesday, saying "we stand by our reporting." 
 
 Meanwhile, the indictment and charges against Strauss-Kahn -- including criminal sexual acts and sexual abuse -- still stand. And though he is now free to travel in the United States, a judge said authorities have continued to withhold the French financier's passport. 
 
 After the charges were filed against him in New York, Strauss-Kahn resigned as director of the International Monetary Fund. 
 
 CNN's Jim Bittermann, Susan Candiotti, Saskya Vandoorne and Dheepthi Namasivayam contributed to this report.
– Another woman is filing a complaint of sexual assault against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief currently being held in New York on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. French writer Tristane Banon says Strauss-Kahn did the same to her nine years ago, and described Strauss-Kahn as acting like a "rutting chimpanzee," the Guardian reports. Banon, who was in her 20s at the time of the attack, says she was persuaded not to take action by her mother, who was a friend of the Strauss-Kahn family and a Socialist regional counselor. "We are planning to make a complaint," says her lawyer. "I am working with her." Banon is Strauss-Kahn's second wife's goddaughter. Back in New York, Strauss-Kahn today pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail until his next court hearing, reports the AP. Until his arrest in New York, Strauss-Kahn was regarded by the French Socialist party as their main hope for unseating Nicolas Sarkozy as president. Click for more on the NYC case.