Monday, May 16, 2011

France shocked by the arrest of Strauss-Khan

The news of Strauss-Kahn on charges of rape has shocked France, where the head of the IMF was given as the favorite in all polls on the 2012 French presidential elections, although he had not yet resolved the reserve on its possible job. Now the possibility that Strauss-Kahn will present seems to fade out completely, even for a simple technical matter of time, as explained by Jeremie Saland, a lawyer from New York, quoted by the French website Le telegram.

com. "The presentation of the socialist candidates in the primaries will be held from June 28 to July 13 and it is almost impossible" that the case is closed in some way by that date. "Usually you have to count six or seven months before a trial takes place. There are two possibilities why the gear stops: that Strauss-Kahn decides to plead guilty and be able to agree with the victim or that the Grand Jury, the college folk will be called into question if you decide that this might be abandoned for lack of sufficient evidence.

From what I have read, none of these hypotheses seem possible. " According to the Financial Times devotes the opening of the scandal that has engulfed the Director of the IMF, the arrest of the director general of the International Monetary Fund disposable turmoil "in the negotiation of the debt crisis of Greece today as Strauss-Kahn was expected the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels to focus on the dossier in Greece and Portugal, and that yesterday was canceled the scheduled meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Still, the spokesman for the EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn seeks to reassure the markets: "The facts involving the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, will have no impact on the plans developed for the el'Iralnda Greece and other decisions you are about to take.

" "We are confident that there will be a total continuity in IMF decision-making process," Rehn called for the condemnation of the French press is unanimous in considering now out of the race for the Elysee Dominique Strauss-Kahn. 'DSK OUT' is a great way of Liberation, the journal of the gauche, note that the editorial as "putting in a state indictment of Strauss-Kahn to open a breach concerning the entire political class, full left, the other bounce, but none is more sheltered.

France knows his first sex scandal and joined Anglo brutally in an area of public debate, so far, except for cultural identity 'Latin' or democratic weakness, remained confined to rumors or gossip of a small clique. " Le Figaro, 'Bomb on presidential' is the title at first, while the editorial 'PS: the great leap into the unknown,' states: "Unbelievable, unbelievable, inconceivable.

The strategists of the Socialist Party had imagined all the scenarios but not this. " The left sees the scenery disappear announced by polling organizations, which predicted a DSK to almost automatic election in spring 2012. The impression that dominates this morning is that everything is in the Socialist Party to start over.

" Yet, from the Socialist Party now only come to certificates of solidarity: "We are at his side, and we are sure you will soon be back among us," said Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, national secretary in charge of Europe and international relations. "First of all - said Cambadelis - there must be a presumption of innocence.

Then, we are convinced that Strauss-Kahn will be completely exonerated. " Estimate for DSK also by the French economist, Jean Paul Fitoussi, interviewed by Radio3Rai: "I am very familiar Dominique Strauss Kahn. I do not believe, you can not. It is not stupid, committing a rape in a hotel in New York is the last thing I would do.

It is not possible. " "It is not impulsive - said economist speaking on 'Whole Town's Talking' - there is a long distance between the fact that he likes women and rape. I think rather than a trap or the ability to exploit the maid to give himself a bit 'of money through compensation. " According Fitoussi however, "everything is possible because there are so many interested in undermining it.

Both within the International Monetary Fund, where he changed the doctrine and outside. " Opposite opinion of Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front, which, in an interview in La Repubblica said they feel "ashamed to see my fellow guilty of these allegations," because "the fragility of sexual Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a secret.

Everyone knew, but there was a real conspiracy of silence in political and journalistic, "admitted Le Pen. "I do not understand how a candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has been the International Monetary Fund, ruining the reputation of France in international institutions." According to Le Pen, Strauss-Kahn should "immediately resign by the IMF," and describes as "nonsense" the idea of a plot against the President of the International Monetary Fund.

"I talk to women - adds -. I am shocked to hear rumors about a possible conspiracy against Strauss-Kahn and anyone who cares to defend and protect the woman attacked. It is not because she is a chambermaid that we should not believe. " A different view, but always critical former advisor to late French socialist president Francois Mitterrand, historian, philosopher and economist, Jacques Attali President that the IMF "in politics is now out of the game: better if you take a step back" even if "the presumption of innocence must always prevail, especially in a story like this, almost unbelievable," said Attali also at La Repubblica.

Recently, Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been the victim of many personal attacks that, according Attali "can not be excluded that there was a manipulation against him" even though Attali acknowledged that "it is difficult to imagine that a waitress in a large hotel respectable New York is a 'spy' enemy sent to catch him.

" Instead, a chorus of condemnation from Paris to the images broadcast by the media around the world by Dominique Strauss-Kahn handcuffed between two American agents as he left a police station in New York. For the Socialist Manuel Valls, these images of "intolerable cruelty" and "for the French political life will be a before and after" all this.

On the other side, the President of the UMP, the right-wing party in government, Jean-Francois Cope, has ensured that he had asked all leaders of his party "very fit, or even the silence" and added that the president Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed with this attitude: "We also thought the image of France," added Cope.

The young leader Cecile Duflot environmentalist calls for "justice" for Strauss-Kahn and the young waitress who accused him, defining "brutal for all" situation. Eva Joly, a candidate in the primaries for the Greens and former magistrate, said "violence" of images and talk of "nightmare".

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