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Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar accused of sexually abusing hotel maid at The Pierre
BY Kerry Burke, Rocco Parascandola AND Barry Paddock
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Monday, May 30th 2011, 10:49 PM
Updated: Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 9:21 AM
Vic Nicastro for News
Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, accused of groping maid at The Pierre hotel, is led by NYPD detectives from the 19th Precinct early Tuesday.
An Egyptian businessman has followed in the footsteps of pervy Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn - sexually abusing a maid in a swanky Manhattan hotel, police said Monday night.
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, 74, former head of the Bank of Alexandria and now chairman of a leading Middle Eastern salt company, is accused of locking the 44-year-old hotel employee inside his $900-a-night room at The Pierre on E. 61st St. off Fifth Ave. on Sunday.
He had called for room service requesting tissues and answered the door in his pajamas, police sources said. When the maid, whom he had not specifically requested, arrived at his 10th-floor room, he asked her to put the box of tissues on a table, sources said. As she moved toward the table, he locked the door.
"He locked her in the room and had her trapped," a police source said. "He grabbed her breasts, groped her. He was grinding against her."
Omar then asked the maid for her phone number, a police source said. After she gave him a made-up number he let go, and she fled the room.
The incident happened about 6 p.m. on Sunday but was not reported to police until Monday morning.
"Experienced NYPD detectives found the complainant to be credible," said Paul Browne, the NYPD's top spokesman.
Omar was arrested at the hotel Monday afternoon and charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment, officials said.
The financier paused briefly as he was led out of the 19th Precinct stationhouse early Tuesday and stared mutely at reporters with a stunned expression.
"He's an old man," said a friend who tried to visit Omar in the police station but was turned away. "He's a good man and also a grandfather."
At the posh hotel, news of the alleged attack spread quickly.
"When I came in they were all talking about it," said a bellman, who declined to give his name. "When she came to his room, he got carried away. He started grabbing at her. He wouldn't let her go."
The maid has worked at the hotel for about a year, co-workers said. She did not return to her job Monday.
"I don't want to say it, but he tried to rape her," the bellman added. "It's a total copycat of what happened with the French guy."
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French presidential candidate, was arrested May 14 for allegedly forcing himself on a maid at the Sofitel in Manhattan.
He remains under house arrest in a posh Tribeca townhouse.
Omar was head of the Bank of Alexandria in Egypt before becoming chairman of the Egyptian salt company El-Mex Salines Co.
"They were saying the guest was a very nice guy, and then this," said a shocked housekeeper at the hotel. "Human beings are strange."
Egyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar accused of sexually abusing hotel maid at The Pierre
BY Kerry Burke, Rocco Parascandola AND Barry Paddock
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Originally Published:Monday, May 30th 2011, 10:49 PM
Updated: Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 9:21 AM
Vic Nicastro for NewsEgyptian businessman Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, accused of groping maid at The Pierre hotel, is led by NYPD detectives from the 19th Precinct early Tuesday.
An Egyptian businessman has followed in the footsteps of pervy Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn - sexually abusing a maid in a swanky Manhattan hotel, police said Monday night.
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar, 74, former head of the Bank of Alexandria and now chairman of a leading Middle Eastern salt company, is accused of locking the 44-year-old hotel employee inside his $900-a-night room at The Pierre on E. 61st St. off Fifth Ave. on Sunday.
He had called for room service requesting tissues and answered the door in his pajamas, police sources said. When the maid, whom he had not specifically requested, arrived at his 10th-floor room, he asked her to put the box of tissues on a table, sources said. As she moved toward the table, he locked the door.
"He locked her in the room and had her trapped," a police source said. "He grabbed her breasts, groped her. He was grinding against her."
Omar then asked the maid for her phone number, a police source said. After she gave him a made-up number he let go, and she fled the room.
The incident happened about 6 p.m. on Sunday but was not reported to police until Monday morning.
"Experienced NYPD detectives found the complainant to be credible," said Paul Browne, the NYPD's top spokesman.
Omar was arrested at the hotel Monday afternoon and charged with sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment, forcible touching and harassment, officials said.
The financier paused briefly as he was led out of the 19th Precinct stationhouse early Tuesday and stared mutely at reporters with a stunned expression.
"He's an old man," said a friend who tried to visit Omar in the police station but was turned away. "He's a good man and also a grandfather."
At the posh hotel, news of the alleged attack spread quickly.
"When I came in they were all talking about it," said a bellman, who declined to give his name. "When she came to his room, he got carried away. He started grabbing at her. He wouldn't let her go."
The maid has worked at the hotel for about a year, co-workers said. She did not return to her job Monday.
"I don't want to say it, but he tried to rape her," the bellman added. "It's a total copycat of what happened with the French guy."
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French presidential candidate, was arrested May 14 for allegedly forcing himself on a maid at the Sofitel in Manhattan.
He remains under house arrest in a posh Tribeca townhouse.
Omar was head of the Bank of Alexandria in Egypt before becoming chairman of the Egyptian salt company El-Mex Salines Co.
"They were saying the guest was a very nice guy, and then this," said a shocked housekeeper at the hotel. "Human beings are strange."
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