Was former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of attempting to rape a chambermaid in New York, set up by political opponents?

Investigative journalist Edward Epstein of the New York Review of Books explains the inconsistencies he believes are apparent in the events surrounding Mr Strauss-Kahn's arrest.

And French political commentator Anne-Elisabeth Moutet says the conspiracy theory "assumes a level of competence that does not exist" in French politics.

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