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Affaire DSK : la justice américaine en question(s) - LeMonde.fr
There was shock in France after the arrest of Mr. Strauss-Kahn in May and intense criticism of the manner in which he was displayed in handcuffs, pulled unshaven into a televised court session and stuffed into a Rikers Island cell under suicide watch. There was confusion and criticism over the glee with which the New York tabloids in particular highlighted every humiliation and turned to clichés about the French — “Chez Perv” and “Frog Legs It” — in the coverage. And there was a sense that it was not just Mr. Strauss-Kahn who was being so jauntily humiliated, but France itself.
French See Case Against Strauss-Kahn as American Folly | TheLedger.com
Dominique Strauss-Kahn allowing himself a smile for the first time in several weeks, at a court hearing on 1 July, as the credibility of the hotel maid as the key witness in the case of attempted rape against him was thrown into doubt. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/REUTERS With the criminal case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn all but completely unravelled , it is easy to second-guess the prosecutors and turn the matter into an example of all that is wrong with the American justice system. In fact, the case likely says more about how the system works , than how it doesn't.
Did US justice fail in the DSK case? | Robert Mintz | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Libération sous caution, inégalitaire
In first days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest , there was a big spasm of media output about how the arrest revealed the massive cultural divide between France and the United States, yada, yada, yada. Led by blowhard French intellectuals France's cultural elite, anti-Americanism seemed ready to spike back to 2003 levels. A funny thing happened in the ensuing days, however, a curious countertrend has emerged -- the wave of anti-American sentiment hasn't spiked at all. Sophie Meunier , your humble blogger's go-to expert on all things French, explains in the Huffington Post that what's happened instead has been far more interesting .
That old French anti-Americanism, it ain't what it used to be | Daniel W. Drezner
Humiliation de l'accusé
Arrangements hors cour
Juge élu - Conflit d'intérêts
In other words, “the Strauss-Kahn affair” will continue to be regarded as such as long as it hasn’t been clearly established that there never was any affair at all—and that the plaintiff, not content to have lied about this or that aspect of her past, also lied in accusing the former head of the IMF of having raped her. And yet, given recent revelations, we can already draw a few lessons from what will ultimately—no doubt very soon—be known as the Strauss-Kahn non-affair. 1. The cannibalisation of Justice by the Sideshow. This cannibalisation is not exclusively an American phenomenon, of course, and we have witnessed myriad examples of it in Europe and France.
BHL: 5 lessons of the DSK affair
Why we should protect those accused of rape - Crime - Salon.com
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