Room 2806: The Accusation

The documentary is certainly well made and comprehensive but it does not add much the facts already known. The case was very muddy 10 years ago and still is: the victim was a weak witness (as in most of these cases) and the powerful forces deployed by the defendant made it even muddier. So the acquittal was - and is - morally outrageous but legally inevitable. As for the possible plot behind the event there was and still there is no evidence, not even circumstantial, that anything like that had actually occurred. Which does not mean it didn't, just that one, if willing to go down that path, must embark into conspiracy theories. But there is one fact that was and still is incontrovertible: DSK was unfit for office, wether in business or in politics, and this affair helped take him down. So it was a good thing.

So it's about what happened in that Room.

Hence a lot of time will be spent about poor people being evicted. He is a French politician. So the footage is from the US.

Than the talk about what happened in the room starts. But everything is stopped, because now you have to know the political persona of the pig. Fine. Than we go back to the story. And as the story progresses we're in the 1980s in France. Huh? Than some French ministers are speaking highly of the guy.

So is he a rapist? The documentary will bring some high school friend who will tell you how he was certain the guy would get a Nobel prize in Economy. That was back in 1968. So relevant!

When they have brought in yet another inept politician to tell how smart this guy is, I tuned out.

Sued into poverty. His wife thought she was so cool putting up with his shennanigans but I see her as nothing but an enabler. So much for the flirtatious loving French. They come off pretty grubby in this series. Thank you NF for refreshing my memory about him and his doings.

I had never heard of DSK but in actual fact he's all we hear about anymore... another garden variety privileged sexual sociopath not held accountable for a single thing. This was a nice, measured look at the world around him, his victims, his investigators and the aftermath. Depressing but interesting.

This is a look at how the 1% has their justice delivered. The power and the money of these people make the justice system favor them...up to a point. They often have a delayed kind of fall. As for the victims mostly they are not given their due. If they are fortunate they get something financial. That's pretty much what we have here. While the accused, in this case, lost all of his political aspirations and third marriage he picks up with a kind of still high-flying well funded lifestyle. Perhaps in the end it will change things over time for the victims in a more positive way. One feels, however, that change is still far from fair and will take more of these incidents, as well as some kind of more decisive jkustice. You might say, though, that is actually happening.