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A DAY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. Archifavorite in the polls for the Élysée, the almost candidate Dominique Strauss-Khan, accused of rape, loses everything in a few hours.
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By Michel Revol
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Ln May 14, 2011, the day DSK was arrested in New York, it’s a bit like September 11, 2001 or, for older people, the first step of Man on the Moon: everyone, or almost, knows where he was and what he was doing when he heard the news. Claude Bartolone, future President of the National Assembly, is in his country house in Sologne; he is warned by an avalanche of text messages. Jean-Christophe Cambadélis is sleeping when, at 6 a.m., his wife wakes him up: “Wake up, DSK has raped a woman! “Camba” crashes in front of the continuous news channels. He is amazed. “I couldn’t say a word,” recalls the former first secretary of the Socialist Party. A little later, his phone rings constantly. “Fabius, Aubry, Emmanuelli, Rocard, they all came to…
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