Strauss-Kahn back in Paris

Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to Paris yesterday for the first time since a New York hotel maid accused him of attempted rape in a sensational sex scandal that scuppered his hopes for the French presidency.
The former IMF chief and his journalist wife Anne Sinclair arrived at dawn at Charles de Gaulle airport on an Air France flight and were whisked off in a black Peugeot to their apartment in the chic Place des Vosges.
Strauss-Kahn, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, boarded the flight at New York's JFK International airport late Saturday, less than two weeks after sexual assault charges against him were dropped.
However he made no comment to the waiting journalists.
The 62-year-old resigned as the International Monetary Fund's managing director in May after he was arrested at JFK airport and charged with the sexual assault and attempted rape of the Sofitel hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo.
The Socialist politician, known in France by his initials DSK, spent nearly a week in jail, and was then put under house arrest for six weeks and barred from leaving the United States.
But last week he walked free when a judge dismissed charges against him after prosecutors said they could not pursue the case because the accuser's lies had made it impossible to prove her accusations beyond a reasonable doubt.