More than a week after DSK's arrest for rape in New York, the French man-in-the-street still seems to think that plots against DSK are the most likely explanation for his arrest, rather than the reasons stated by the complainant. Over and over you hear, "In the U.S.A., they don't believe in the presumption of innocence!"
Here are some I have seen suggested in comments and news reports of public opinion:
--The maid walked in on DSK masturbating and decided to profit from the occasion to blackmail him, so deliberately got close to him for DNA proof
--The maid specifically asked to go to the 28th floor to work where the important man was so she could entrap him
--Everyone in the hotel knew he was important so how could she say that she didn't know who he was?
--She wasn't even pretty, and DSK likes blonds. So it would never have been his idea. She must have seduced him.
--If she wasn't hired by Sarkozy, she was a nymphomaniac.
--She could have easily found the matériel in a used condom to smear over herself and act like a victim
--In any case, it doesn't prove the contact was unwanted. She just said that afterwards to get money
--The maid deliberately walked in on him naked so that she could scream rape
--She agreed, thinking she would be paid, and cried rape after he said he wouldn't pay her
--How could a maid accidentally walk in on a guest? They always knock first and work in teams of two, so she is obviously lying
--How can someone be forced to commit fellatio? Why didn't she scream and run away? She is obviously lying
--If it was true, why did it take her so long to report it?
--It it was true, why would DSK have called the hotel to ask for his telephone?
--An impostor wearing a DSK mask could have attacked the maid so that she would get DSK in trouble (however, I think this one is a troll... I hope)
--It's Al Qaida's fault! Everyone knows a practicing Jew like DSK would never touch a Muslim woman. They want to bring down the world financial system (sarcastic woman commenter after some of the more far-fetched scenarios)
Le Monde published a reporter's chat with two Guinean women in Harlem (the complainant lives in the Bronx) who admit they do not know the complainant, but assure the reporter that "most people" think she is lying. This is not the kind of thing that improves my low opinion of Le Monde's editorial team.
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