“I want to protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion, and especially – especially – I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence,” Strauss-Kahn said, declaring “I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me.”

His short statement paid tribute to his American-born wife, journalist Anne Sinclair, whom he said he loved more than anything, and spoke of his “infinite sadness” at being compelled to leave a job to which he had also been devoted.

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