Everything started back in May, when IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexual assault. Four months later,  the New York District Attorney moved to withdraw the charges on 22 August 2011, due to the ‘unreliability of the complainant and inconclusive physical evidence’.

On Sunday, Dominique Strauss-Khan and his wife Anne Sinclair have returned to France, and they were surrounded by journalists, eager to ask DSK questions about the sexual assault and whether or not he will return to French politics soon.

But according to a recent survey, 53 percent of those questioned would prefer the former Socialist finance minister to play no part in the political debate in the coming months. As of today, we don’t know what he plans to do.

A majority of French do not want former IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn to return to politics because he was not cleared in New York, the charges were simply dropped. He still faces a civil suit from Diallo and an accusation of attempted rape by French writer Tristane Banon.

This case is not only damaging for French politics as some people were shocked by DSK ‘un-socialist taste’ for luxury and expensive way life, but also because many people think (rightfully or not) that rich celebrities can get away with anything. This is not what we think, ‘in justice we trust’ even if it can obviously have some flaws.

Time will tell what will happen but this story and its consequences are far from being over yet. Banon, who filed a complaint alleging the Socialist politician tried to rape her after luring her to a Paris flat in 2003, doesn’t mince her words: ‘I cannot believe that my country gives a hero’s welcome to a man who has not been cleared […] I hear people telling me of their disgust, I need their support to remain upright, yet I am the one who bows my head and stays out of sight while others laugh at the cameras’.

Not over yet, we told you…