Smoke and Fire: Why France Was Silent About Strauss-Kahn's Womanizing
Article très dur pour DSK. Un avocat anonyme aurait toute une pile de dossiers de femmes qui pourraient se plaindre.
A Paris attorney who specializes in defending victims of sexual violence, who didn’t want to be named, says he has “an entire pile of complaints” from women who say they were attacked by Strauss-Kahn. Like Pierrat, he says last weekend’s news evoked déjà vu. And like Pierrat, he says he has a consistency of accusations against Strauss-Kahn. “It’s all so similar,” he says. “The lock thrown on the door, the pulled or ripped undergarments, the physical force that turned violent as resistance mounted, all of it. And frankly, this isn’t at all incompatible with the skirt-chaser stories and reputation of an incorrigible ladies’ man. [Strauss-Kahn’s] defenders tend to say his conquests are seduction, and that while perhaps condemnable as adultery, they don’t constitute rape. But there’s another school of thought — favored by a lot of clinical specialists — who say someone that obsessed with sexual encounters is dysfunctional, an addict. They’re dependent on them, and when denied or otherwise frustrated, they snap and try to take it anyway. They are sick, and when their sickness takes full control, they lose all logic, lose rationality, and all reason and consequence vanishes in the impulse and violence of the act.”
