Posted on 10/14/2011 3:56:40 PM PDT by Cincinna
For the second time this year, legal officials chose on Thursday not to prosecute Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of attempted rape, despite what investigators here said was evidence of sexual assault, ending months of scandal that have tarnished a political career that once seemed destined to lead to the French presidency.
There was evidence from Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s own testimony of sexual assault in a 2003 encounter with a French writer and novelist, Tristane Banon, the prosecutor said in a statement, but given a three-year statute of limitations on that charge, no case would be brought.
“Facts that could be qualified as sexual assault have been acknowledged,” the statement said. It did not offer any further details.
Given the age of the case and the difficulty of finding physical evidence so long after the event, it appeared that prosecutors had little choice.
The decision provoked some controversy here, particularly in feminist circles, but nothing like the storms that surrounded this summer’s case in New York involving Mr. Strauss-Kahn and a hotel housekeeper
Mr. Strauss-Kahn had no immediate comment. One of his lawyers, Henri Leclerc, said in an interview that while Mr. Strauss-Kahn did admit to making advances toward Ms. Banon and kissing her without consent, “no violence was acknowledged.” Another of his lawyers, Frédérique Beaulieu, said on television that her client had been “totally cleared.”
Ms. Banon’s lawyer, David Koubbi, issued a statement calling Mr. Strauss-Kahn an “untried sexual aggressor.” The prosecutors established “without reserve that the case is not empty and what she denounced is not imaginary,” Mr. Koubbi said. The finding of the prosecutors “will allow him to escape criminal conviction, but not a legitimate suspicion about his behavior towards women.”
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What's a feminist circle?
The 12 people that make up NOW?
“Facts that could be qualified as sexual assault have been acknowledged,”
He did it, and he is getting off Scot-free.
Well, not really. DSK was the pre-ordained, annointed candidate for the Socialist Party (PS) nomination for President of France, to run against Sarkozy in 2012.
His scandal in NY with a chambermaid, and the exposure of his life long history of abuse and sexual harassment of women subordinates led to his elimination.
The PS will now vote on Sunday. They are now faced with a choice between two elite trained functionaries: Martine Aubry, the now PS chairman, daughter of EU founder, Jacques Delors, and François Hollande, the former chair of the PS, and father of Ségolène Royal’s four illegitimate children.
Aubry is courting the far left, Hollande, the center moderate wing. Hollande much smarter, much nicer, and far more capable.
FWIW, Ségolène endorsed her former “companion”, as did the far leftist Arnaud Montebourg, who came in third in the first round.
IMO Hollande will win the primary. He has a far better chance of beating
Sarko in 2012.
Stay tuned for Primary Election Results on Sunday. I’ll keep you posted!
Thank you for the precise details - very informative.
Strauss-Kahn is lucky he is not a Catholic priest. If he were, then he would have been charged.
and some wonder why we call it a world “stage”. Still trying to figure out just where the average person is among all these various episodes.....pretty much seems simply the purse so they can act out their rolls among each other....and take their bows as they go before an audiance that sees the insanity....but continues to support it.
“MAÏA de la BAUME”
Is she da bomb? Makes me think of Clouseau.
What’s a feminist circle? >>>>>>>>>>
A discussion group conducted in the complete and utter silence of penis envy?
Like Barry could stop him. Michelle, though, would grind SK into little pieces.
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