Dominique Strauss-Kahn charged with attempted rape

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The French people are livid how they treated him when they took him out of the plane.

Huh??


http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/306804

 

[hunbun]

When are these guys going to learn that paying for it can get your rocks off :???:. Another not too bright man.

 

[sandyblondegirl]

well, you're making an assumption that he actually did something. In his position, and I'm not saying people in power are any smarter than the rest of us, you'd think doing something like this would end his political career so maybe he'd think twice.

One thing that gives me pause: he left his cellphone behind. Is he so dumb that he'd call about the phone if he actually committed a serious crime?

If he did do this, it's good they found out now before he was elected just how dumb he actually is.....

 

[Cal0130]

I'm sorry I've missed this detail. Is there a detailed account of what supposedly happened??

 

[Noah H]

It was in the article, that's how the police nabbed him. He called the hotel asking about the phone and (I assume) he told the hotel he was at the airport and they found out what flight he was on and stopped it from taking off....

I think this could be moved over to the "stupidest thing I've ever done" thread.....throw away a presidency for this?

 

[WindMiller]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, described endlessly as brilliant, charming and an “insistent” womanizer, had predicted women would be his downfall.
“Yes, I love women. So what?” he said in an interview with the French newspaper Liberation, published April 28.

Strauss-Kahn told the newspaper he could see being set up by a woman he “might have raped in a parking lot” who would then be offered a half-million or million Euros to “invent” a story.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, now in a New York jail on genuine rape charges, had told Liberation he anticipated three main challenges if he ran as the Socialist Party candidate for the French presidency: “The money, women and my Jewishness, in that order.”
Strauss-Kahn has denied the charge, levelled by a hotel maid; his wife, journalist and millionaire Anne Sinclair, has defended him.

As have legions of other women for earlier charges. After Strauss-Kahn admitted to an affair with Hungarian economist Piroska Nagy who worked for him, political commentator Agnes Poirer wrote in 2009 in the Guardian that Nagy was clearly naïve.
Otherwise, said Poirer, “she would have recognized DSK as a typical French womanizer who wouldn't abide by strict American behaviour regulations in the workplace. Any woman who has worked in France knows his type by heart, and has suffered their endless soliciting.”
Nagy had written to a law firm about Strauss-Kahn: “I fear that this man has a problem that could make it unsuited to the direction of an institution where women work under him.”

Just before Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who made a fortune as a business consultant, was recommended for the IMG job in 2007, Liberation journalist Jean Quatremer also warned, “The only real problem with Strauss-Kahn is his attitude to women ... he is too insistent.”
Quatremer was heavily criticized, including by commentator Daniel Schneidermann in his own newspaper, who called the piece a violation of strict French privacy laws.
Still, Schneidermann wrote, “I have ... heard many reports, some at first hand, from women journalists” who have been subject to “advances” from Strauss-Kahn during interviews.

 

[kelvin S]

still not saying he is guilty or innocent, but being a womanizer does not make him a rapist. These are two totally different issues. Rape is about power and "taking" the victim, it doesn't sound like he's that type at all. Sure he probably flirted with the journalists during the interviews, but ahem, there are reams and reams of books and articles that says flirting is actually good....but here, if a guy flirts with a pretty journalist, that's proof he raped a maid in a hotel room.....

I just want to point out one big difference between france and the US: I think slapping or pinching a woman's behind is still a (reasonably) accepted behaviour. Do that here or in the US and you could end up in jail for 10 yrs (while murderers get out in 3).

I think this smells of a smear campaign......I mean, how many unsolved murders does Manhattan have that go uninvestigated yet they stop a plane full of people because a politician is accused of rape? (or is it sexual assault).