The legal case over claims the former head of the IMF had attacked Tristane Banon was officially abandoned after the French prosecutor's office said no legal action could be brought.


In a statement, the office declared that a three-month police investigation had found insufficient evidence to charge Strauss-Kahn with attempted rape.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...?newsfeed=true


Were the charges trumped up by desperate rightwingers to keep Strauss-Kahn from the Presidency?