I don't get it.
A black chambermaid accuses one of the most powerful men in the world of sexual assault and attempted rape and the man is arrested.
Who did she take her complaint to? The hotel management? The police? Did nobody attempt to silence her with threats or bribes?
I'm not alleging that the woman is lying, just expressing surprise that her allegations have been acted upon. In the UK she would have been sent packing at an early stage. This would have been a matter of class; the lower orders don't get anywhere with complaints about their social superiors.
In the US, I suggest it would be a matter of class and RACE. Black against white, no contest, ask Rodney King. So little wonder that some in Europe are crying foul.
Strauss-Kahn, they say, if he declared his intention to run for the French presidency against the odious Sarkozy would win at a canter. No chance of that now.
Strauss-Kahn, they say, has upset the Americans, not to mention the Russians and the Chinese, by pumping IMF money into the Eurozone.
On the other hand, S-K is known as a "chaud lapin", though not as a rapist (hang on! A queue is forming).
To sum up, he may or may not be guilty, but in the land of John F. Kennedy and William J. Clinton you just don't treat well connected sexual predators that way.
Unless ...