Strauss-Kahn ‘won’t get hero’s welcome’

CLEARED of sex assault charges, Dominique Strauss- Kahn could be back in France within days but may not get a hero’s welcome, if sober newspaper editorials and cautious statements by his Socialist allies are anything to go by.

Newspapers focused on the stain to his image from his liaison with a New York hotel maid.

Strauss-Kahn could be home as early as next week, after settling his affairs in Washington where he was based as head of the International Monetary Fund until his mid-May arrest on attempted rape charges, which were dropped on Tuesday.