If you're unfamiliar with the story Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who was forced to resign early after being arrested and charged with the rape of a hotel chamber maid in New York, USA. Then his defence team set about attacking his accusers credibility and the prosecution took the unusual step of announcing that their case is weak. The latest development is that his accuser has waived her right to anonymity to give an in depth interview with the American ABC news network. So think it's fair to say that this case has already been so heavily politicised that I can talk about it freely without affecting the trial.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a serial rapist and sex offender. In his native France he has been accused of rape several times but those accusations were hushed up through a mixture of bribery and intimidation. In New York he has been accused of two further sexual assaults and has been arrested at least once for solicitation - offering money to a prostitute for sex. However because he was the head of the IMF the police and prosecutors in New York were forced to drop the charges.
Shortly before this latest rape Strauss-Kahn had made it clear that he intended to step down as the head of the IMF in the coming months. So with everyone's blood up following the killing of Osama bin Laden when this rape occurred the police and prosecutors in New York saw no reason to protect him any further. The problem was that the matter then went all the way up the chain of command to President Obama who realised that Strauss-Kahn's arrest would destroy the election chances of the French Socialist Part who are allied to Obama's Democrat Party.
So now the Federal government are forcing the prosecutors to throw the case in order to allow Strauss-Kahn to return to France. As they know this is morally wrong they are trying to disguise this fact by dressing it up in many, many different clothes.
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