Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the man many French citizens hoped would rid them of the despised President Nicolas Sarkozy. Paris-based writer Nina Sutton describes the despair of those Dsk supporters-and their suspicions that he may have gotten caught in a honey trap. Plus, Bernard-Henri Lévy defends Strauss-Kahn, and the latest news updates on Dsk.
Why did I wake up feeling so nauseated and dirty this morning? Why am I still so distraught at midday? Why do so many of my friends echo that feeling when calling on my American experience to try and make sense of the images that we sat watching over and over all evening yesterday? And why did those images seem so violent to us, when American cop shows have become our daily fodder on French television?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
One answer is obvious. Yesterday, we...
Why did I wake up feeling so nauseated and dirty this morning? Why am I still so distraught at midday? Why do so many of my friends echo that feeling when calling on my American experience to try and make sense of the images that we sat watching over and over all evening yesterday? And why did those images seem so violent to us, when American cop shows have become our daily fodder on French television?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
One answer is obvious. Yesterday, we...
- 5/18/2011
- by Nina Sutton
- The Daily Beast
No one knows if the Imf director is guilty of sexual assault-and by dragging him through the mud, politicians and the press are committing gross acts of injustice, says French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Monday morning.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
I do not know what actually happened Saturday, the day before yesterday, in the room of the now famous Hotel Sofitel in New York.
I do not know-no one knows, because there have been no leaks regarding the declarations of the man in question-if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was guilty of the acts he is accused of committing there, or if, at the time, as was stated, he was having lunch with his daughter.
I do not know-but, on the other hand, it would be nice to know, and without delay-how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual...
Monday morning.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Life in Jail at Rikers Island
I do not know what actually happened Saturday, the day before yesterday, in the room of the now famous Hotel Sofitel in New York.
I do not know-no one knows, because there have been no leaks regarding the declarations of the man in question-if Dominique Strauss-Kahn was guilty of the acts he is accused of committing there, or if, at the time, as was stated, he was having lunch with his daughter.
I do not know-but, on the other hand, it would be nice to know, and without delay-how a chambermaid could have walked in alone, contrary to the habitual...
- 5/16/2011
- by Bernard-Henri Levy
- The Daily Beast
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