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The drama takes place in New York was unforgettable. Men of power have all been ordered

I will long remember the statement that the lawyer Kenneth Thompson P delivered to a group of reporters on the sidewalk in front of the New York State Supreme Court at noon on Friday. I was in New York that day and took in live television. Thompson is the Guinean woman who says she was raped by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a suite at the Sofitel New York in May. The lawyer just to see if they begin to retire, the prosecution acknowledged many inconsistencies and outright lies in the history of women and suspicious circumstances around it.

Thompson, who specializes in employment discrimination and sexual harassment cases, relentlessly detailed what he said were the undisputed facts of the assault: the violence that had torn a Women shoulder ligament (the defender touched his shoulder to reinforce the point itself), the bruising of her vagina, stockings torn. Then, the following: "The next thing I want to say is that when it was hard to escape when she was on her knees and was sexually assaulted after I finished, got up and ran to the door and began to spit semen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his mouth in disgust over the hotel room.

"So when he heard forensic evidence, DNA testing, he spits the sperm into the wall, she spat on the ground - and guess what, when her supervisor came, he saw? that. Security personnel at the Sofitel, which saw him. Detectives from the NYPD, as. And there was a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney, who entered the hotel room the day arrived, and showed him where the semen was. "

If the woman and her lawyer say the truth, then he has an idea of ??what a violent sexual assault by a powerful man in a vulnerable woman appears. Everyone must face the reality of it disgusting. If, however, do not tell the truth, then it was the murder of a man's character, in broad daylight on a sidewalk in New York. Nothing that man could be president of France can now take its reputation back to him. Every time you mention his name, the first thing anyone thinks that in this case.

As the case against DSK is in question, and can even be pulled in a few weeks, so that the Franco-American heated recriminations. "Whether or not DSK is free," the American journalist Peter Beinart in the Daily Beast, "his case is a good reflection of American justice. We can hold our heads high. "It was a" very inspiring "example of equality before the law. In the other corner, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy rails against" the cannibalization of Justice for the Sideshow ", referring to Thompson a sidewalk news conference, saying that his friend DSK must be given" not only their freedom, but - more important to restore his honor -. "

What we have here are the echoes of a profound difference between French and American attitudes to issues of privacy and reputation. The Yale lawyer James Q Whitman argued that the essence of the American tradition is a race to the bottom while the French (and German) is the tradition of leveling up. "We are all aristocrats now," said the spirit of Paris. Even the poorest women of immigrant origin should be entitled to civility, respect and, yes, the honor, as a noble past. (Note the unexpected reappearance of the word "honor" is in the old BHL

If it were true that the powerful and the weak are truly equal under the law of the United States. It is the symbolic message sent by the killer in New York unforgettable journey of the man who would otherwise become the president of France. (Perp, incidentally, stands for the author.) But the message is doubly misleading. First, it is true that the humiliation is applied equally to all. The rich, powerful and well connected, you can often avoid walking murderer, and spend time and money making sure they do. The story of the murderer walk in New York is also the story of political ambition of District Attorneys, as Rudy Giuliani. Second, the media in today's world, where images are far more powerful than words, which is equivalent to a conviction without trial. And a sentence in the Court of Appeal does not support YouTube.

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