Sunday, October 9, 2011

DSK walks, but Nicolas Sarkozy will run | Anne Daguerre

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The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been abandoned, but his reputation is in tatters, his accuser, too. So who benefits?

As expected, the district attorney Cyrus Vance tries to charges of sexual assault and rape against Dominique Strauss-Kahn declined. DSK has his freedom again after three months of arrest, imprisonment and house arrest, however, the question of DSK does not stop there. The "scandal", in fact, remains suspended between New York and Paris, with a civil suit filed in Manhattan by the defendants of origin, the hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, and the French journalist DSK Tristano Banon allegations against an attempted rape, said, to be held in February 2003. Despite these challenges, there is always speculation about a possible resumption of the political career of Mr. Strauss-Kahn as a presidential challenge.

Therefore, several chapters are not yet counted in the DSK history - the lack of resolution to the dismay of the French Socialists. But as the sex scandal in the French political leadership, the case has already changed the terms of debate on what is acceptable behavior between men and women, especially when there is a structural inequality of power.

In the past, French women were told not to a "scandal" when they were harassed, and rarely a complaint was made about it. Many feared being ostracized for reporting sexual harassment. The most famous in the history of the prescription, the PhD student Sandrine Bertaux against the University Professor Herve Le Bras, in 2002, ended with a verdict of dismissal. Since 2004, France has not seen the media coverage of a sexual harassment case involving a major figure in the public. However, in the United States, well known cases of sexual misconduct by politicians abound, from a single Democratic candidate John Edwards in the middle of the campaign on the apparent inability to keep your Arnold Schwarzenegger hands of women reactions including, recently, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both the inappropriate conduct of online relationships and posting pictures of themselves -. racy Christopher Lee and Anthony Weiner, respectively

a result of the scandal of DSK, and French politicians can expect a severe examination of their extramarital affairs. Indulgence legendary French media that politicians'

licentiousness

is now a thing of the past. The politicians and men in positions of power must be much more conservative than their counterparts as Americans must be. One of the first victims of the first adventure DSK was Georges Tron, the Minister of Public Service, which was forced to resign after two women filed lawsuits of sexual harassment against him.

But the old Gallic chauvinism dies hard. Veteran left-liberal French journalist Jean-François Kahn DSK originally closed the case as a "

strickling herd

" - literally, lifting the skirt of a servant , a traditional national sport played by men from all walks of life. Obviously, Kahn was nostalgic for the good old days, when I say a waitress were dismissed with a shrug and a smile of satisfaction. Then without the name, famous French philosopher Bernard-Henry Levy Banon Tristano attacked, accusing him of being an opportunist who "pulls out his old record and comes to spanking on TV."

DSK But if the question presented in a new light, the attitude of the French embarrassing last antediluvian same name, it also revealed critical fissures among French women. Although most of the leaders of the feminist movement of the 1970s has maintained a studied silence on the issue, new wave feminists DSK Magali Haas, in his Dare to feminism ("dare to be a feminist") or Autain Clementine, a communist leader, launched an attack on all patriarchal creation of French society. At a rally in Paris, about 500 women have declared their solidarity with Diallo. "
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  • " Nafissatou Diallo has become a symbol of white male oppression and sexual violence rich.
  • But there is no consensus friendly, brotherly. Elisabeth Badinter, French grande dame of feminism Republican - and a good friend of DSK's wife, Anne Sinclair - denounced the "hasty conclusions" of some feminists, who prematurely condemned as guilty DSK. For Badinter, an unpleasant puritanical conservatives had raised its ugly head in the reaction of these new feminists.
  • beyond the crisis of the brotherhood, some feminists fear that the consequences of the case may harm women DSK. Lack of credibility Diallo as a key witness who plays a crucial role in decision-Cyrus Vance Jr. to withdraw the charges against the DSK. Given the decision of the prosecutor in Manhattan, the civil suit against Mr. Strauss-Kahn seemed optimistic, even with a low burden of proof. Doubts about Diallo's testimony and questioning the reasons for Banon has raised a fundamental question: women are accused of sexual harassment or assault still believe - in the courtyard of the French public, if not the court of justice - unless they can be presented as the finest Madonnas acting on the basis of properly?
United States, Vance's decision to drop all charges against DSK reflects the accumulation of circumstances, not least, is the fact that Vance had recently lost two criminal proceedings against police officers in New York on charges of rape and could not risk a second humiliation, two years after his re-election campaign. By Diallo, his personal history as an immigrant creates exceptional -. Led to his admission to prosecutors that he lied to immigration authorities on rape in Guinea to strengthen its asylum in the U.S.

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