Former IMF chief back in France

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to France today, together with his wife.

4 September 2011, 12:00am

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Once a favourite of the opposition party to run against French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Strauss-Kahn was reportedly faced by an “icy greeting” from his fellow party colleagues.

Strauss-Kahn political career took a downfall last May when he was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of a hotel maid. Earlier last week, the New York prosecutors dropped their case against him.

The former finance minister and his wife arrived in Paris at 7.05am local time. Though smiling, they delivered no statement to the press present at the Charles de Gaulle airport.

But his return to France is being described as an “embarrassment” for France’s opposition Social Party as it prepares to vote to choose a candidate to run against Sarkozy.

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The hope is that this man will not have a political future in France again. Whatever the truth was, we will never know. Only he knows. But with all that baggage, I doubt the Frenchies are foolish enough to elect him as a leader. But the French man, and probably the women as well have a tendency to brag about their extramarital affairs. I suppose that is how they prove their manhood.