Though the former boss of the International Monetary Fund was smiling as he left court in the US on Tuesday, free of all charges of criminal assault on a New York chambermaid, he was visibly older than the man who just three months ago was tipped to become France’s next president.
“You can see it in his face,” said a senior Socialist politician who has known him for 30 years. “He has just lived through a nightmare.”
It is not likely to be the same Dominique Strauss-Kahn who returns to his native France, they say, and nor will he enjoy the same role that he once envisaged – taking the left to power in next year’s presidential election.
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