IMF Director's Arrest Really Embarrassing to the French
Remember: In France, you're presumed guilty after arrest. "'He’s definitely discredited,' Ms. Le Pen said Sunday on French television. 'The case and the charges mark the end of his campaign for the presidency, and will likely prompt the IMF to ask him to leave his post.' . . . Bernard Debré, a lawmaker in Mr. Sarkozy’s center-right UMP party, told French television that the arrest was “a humiliation and an affront to the honor of France. Everyone will now say, ‘Look at what the French do.' . . . François Bayrou, a centrist politician who lost to Mr. Sarkozy in the last race, said he was amazed. 'If the accusations turn out to be true — and even if they are proved false — this is a degrading thing' for France, he said." [rdbrewer]