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I am totally disgusted with the arrogant and insensitive reaction of the French media (and their elites) to the arrest of the ex-IMF MD. They are behaving as if he is the victim and NYPD shouldn't have paid any heed to the allegations. Shouldn't they have saved this for the time of acquittal (if it happens) ?

In his weekly column in Le Point, Lvy asked how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual practice of most New York hotels of sending a cleaning brigade of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet. For his part, Daniel wrote in an editorial for his magazine that the fate meted out to DSK, as Strauss-Kahn is generally referred to in the French press, has made him think that, We [French] and the Americans do not belong to the same civilization, and demanded to knowshades of my guerrilla friend in South Sudanwhy the supposed victim was treated as worthy and beyond any suspicion?
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A journalist from one of Frances main radio stations who witnessed Strauss-Kahns arraignment reported that, before he had been brought before the judge, there had been a procession of blacks and Latinos accused of all sorts of petty crimes, above all selling drugs.
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Ah, he should have been in a special queue!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/19/opinion/main20064211.shtml


"What do we know about the chambermaid?" read a suspicious headline in the respected daily Le Monde.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2072009,00.html
 
Their justice system is much different than ours in that they don't allow photos or other media of accused persons in handcuffs etc. So it makes sense that the public is aghast at the treatment of DSK.

And to be fair to the MAINSTREAM French media they are reporting the story with a good deal of US sensitive context. Le Point is essentially a tabloid.
 
the rush to judgment by all, as well as the absence of any truly objective media throughout the world, is very sad. some americans -- and i suspect other nationalities -- have convicted this guy simply because he's french, wealthy and/or connected to the imf. some have already denounced the victim and consider her side of the story worthless simply because she is of a lower class. i haven't seen one website or print publication so far that hasn't acted tabloid-esque with this story.
 
I totally agree with the french idea that the accused in any crime shouldnt be photographed in handcuffs and entering police custody, you have already been punished before a trial.

That being said, i don't think the French media has been all that supportive of the guy, his flaws were well known.The french media is just worried about Marine Le Pen

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110519-705532.html

"The fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned Wednesday as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was to be expected, far right party leader Marine Le Pen said Thursday, because of the reputation of "harasser" he had in Parisian circles.

"All the political and media circles rustled with rumors relaying not only of Strauss-Kahn's behavior of--how to say--chronic seducer, but of harasser," Le Pen told RMC radio Thursday. "A certain number of his political opponents knew that this quasi-pathological behavior could go to their advantage in the presidential campaign."

Le Pen blasted both the Union for a Popular Movement, France's majority party, and the opposition Socialists for ignoring Strauss-Kahn's flaws.

"They were ready to take this man to the head of the French state, in the same way as Sarkozy was ready to put him at the helm of the IMF, knowing this situation," Le Pen said.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as his centre-right UMP party, have been careful not to appear to take advantage of Strauss-Kahn's fall--in particular because his candidacy was strongly supported by Sarkozy in 2007. At the time, the president was suspected of wanting to dispatch a rival out of harm's way.

Until news of the Strauss-Kahn case broke in France Sunday, Le Pen, who took over the National Front leadership from her father Jean-Marie in January, had been ranked second to Strauss-Kahn in surveys, which indicated she could outvote Sarkozy in a first-round vote and go on to a runoff against the former IMF chief next year. "
 
another story about Marine Le Pen's reaction to US case

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...-shows-some-love-american-justice_567504.html

"One of the most typical reactions of French commentators to the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York has been a kind of knee jerk disparagement of the American criminal justice system – or the “atrocious” American criminal justice system, as one “expert” put it on the French news channel BFM.

The first images of a hand-cuffed Strauss-Kahn being led out of a Harlem police station served as a lightening rod for such sentiments, with news reports vaguely suggesting that photographing or filming a restrained suspect is somehow or another incompatible with the presumption of innocence.

But at least one prominent French commentator has not joined the chorus of condemnations: namely, Marine Le Pen, who recently succeeded her father Jean-Marie as head of France’s National Front.

Le Pen’s dissent is particularly interesting, given that a certain anti-Americanism is a traditional part of the National Front’s political repertoire. Interviewed this morning on BFM by the journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, Le Pen had this to say:

"I don’t particularly like the American justice system, but in my opinion there’s at least one respect in which they have something to teach us: namely, the fact that they treat the immigrant maid and the head of the IMF perfectly equally. We have a lesson to learn from that: …on how to treat the victim [of a sexual assault], on how to treat the powerful and the poor, who should be treated on an equal basis, which is not the case in France. You know very well, if this episode had occurred in France, it would not have turned out [the same way]…"
 
sorry, but i can't help but find it laughable that a country such as france which installs cctv all over the place to watch its 'innocent citizens' can complain at all about the "atrocious" behavior of america allowing the photographing of anyone who is accused of a crime such as this.
 
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