I am gobsmacked over the arrest of IMF President Strauss-Kahn, also a Socialist candidate for the French presidency next year. While I applaud the quick action by NY police on a complaint of sexual assault against him - regardless of the person involved - , which allegedly had taken place earlier in the day in a midtown hotel, I am in disbelief that the 62-year old actually attacked a hotel chamber maid. It would be so insane that I rather smell a rat: a set-up, instigated and concocted in Paris.
We shall see. But for now I find the action, to drag Strauss-Kahn from an Air France plane in handcuffs and whisk him into a Manhattan police cell rather excessive. He was subjected to a microscopic search of his body, which he consented to, and his clothes were checked for DNA evidence. Apparently he left his $3,000 Sofitel suite in a haste, forgetting personal items in the hotel room, among them his mobile phone. It was his phone call to the Sofitel's front desk asking about his cell phone that tipped off NYC police of his whereabouts: in a 1st class seat of an Air France jet about to take off at JFK.
If proved guilty, Mr Strauss-Kahn deserves no sympathy; but for now the incredible accusation of attempted rape sounds just too difficult to believe.
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