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There is no end to the wild speech triggered by the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the police of New York, May 14, on charges of sexual assault, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. As if the extraordinary nature of this case and the breathtaking - and dramatic - situation in which the former head of the Monetary Fund International is now could justify more extravagant explanations.
Since the news broke every first Sunday, the notion that it was all a set-up means to unseat Strauss-Kahn is widespread as forest fires, particularly on the Internet. The world of imagination is boundless, every theory put forward seems more surprising than the other: they point to the CIA or rivals within the IMF, of large US banks or financial interests threatened by Strauss-Kahn thrust regulationplans murky by some "black cabinet" working for Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée Palace, or even the rival Socialist Party only too willing to get rid of a dangerous candidate before the presidential election of 2012. (See the photos of the career of Dominique Strauss-Kahn).
The conspiracy theories were fueled by the fact that certain personalities policies - supporters of Strauss-Kahn, but not only - does seem unwilling to exclude the possibility of a "trap" or "handling". In an interview with the French daily liberation that took place on 28 April, Dominique Strauss-Kahn himself alluded to the possibility that such set up could be organized by his enemies.
To top it all, a poll conducted Monday by the CSA Institute showed that 57% of the French public thought that the former head of the IMF "is the victim of a conspiracy," with the number reached 70% in the case of voters from the left.
Regardless of whether if the poll in question is legal or not - the Act adopted Guigou in 2000 requires that without these surveys are taken on a person protected by the presumption of innocence - the investigation reveals important details on the State of mind in the country of ("I think quedonc I'm"philosopher"") René Descartes and beyond. (See why theories of conspiracy of 9/11 Won't go away).
It is normal that most people find this case totally outrageous - and exciting - given that the alleged sex scandal involves one of the most powerful men of the world, and a potential candidate to the Presidency of the French Republic. But this does not mean that we should suddenly stop analyzing the facts with caution and good sense? Obviously not. Unless we are willing to admit that to challenge any authority and especially the authority of justice (be it American, in this case), reached today a troubling point of no return. Unless we are prepared to say that the efforts of investigation of the media to make has more no weight to elucubrations crazy that Internet spreads instantly everywhere around the world.
We should not still here are therefore ready to abandon in the kind of frenzy of conspiracy theories that spawned from the attacks of September 11. Let us not forget that this phenomenon is one of the sources very of totalitarianism, a sign of a democracy in regression.
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