<p>"I am outraged, morning, day and night. What I find truly revolting is the reaction of elected Socialists," Anne Mansouret, a Socialist party member and mother of writer Tristane Banon, who has lodged a formal complaint against Strauss-Kahn, told AFP.<br /><br />A US judge on Tuesday dismissed a sex assault indictment against Strauss-Kahn stemming from allegations he attacked a maid at his luxury hotel suite in New York in May.<br /><br />Before his arrest, Strauss-Kahn had been touted as a potential Socialist party candidate in next year's French presidential election.<br /><br />"They are all repeating that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has emerged clean. No, he has not emerged clean," she said.<br /><br />"The prosecutor is not risking a trial. But this does not in any way prejudice the civil suit brought by (Nafissatou) Diallo," the hotel maid who made the charges, she said.<br /><br />"It angers me to hear both Mr Strauss-Kahn's friends and (Socialist leader) Martine Aubry herself (expressing their) happiness" at his release, Mansouret said.<br /><br />Aubry on Tuesday said she was "immensely relieved" at Strauss-Kahn's release. "I am very happy for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and (his wife) Anne Sinclair," she said.<br /><br />"I hope that this will bring us to also respect the word of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to let him do what he most wants to, that is to return to normal life and to express himself when he decides to," she said.<br /><br />Other French Socialists have expressed relief at Strauss-Kahn's release, including presidential hopeful Francois Hollande who on Monday said he was "thrilled" at reports that prosecutors planned to drop the case.<br /><br />Banon, 32, accuses Strauss-Kahn of attacking her during an interview in February 2003 in a central Paris flat.</p>
<p>"I am outraged, morning, day and night. What I find truly revolting is the reaction of elected Socialists," Anne Mansouret, a Socialist party member and mother of writer Tristane Banon, who has lodged a formal complaint against Strauss-Kahn, told AFP.<br /><br />A US judge on Tuesday dismissed a sex assault indictment against Strauss-Kahn stemming from allegations he attacked a maid at his luxury hotel suite in New York in May.<br /><br />Before his arrest, Strauss-Kahn had been touted as a potential Socialist party candidate in next year's French presidential election.<br /><br />"They are all repeating that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has emerged clean. No, he has not emerged clean," she said.<br /><br />"The prosecutor is not risking a trial. But this does not in any way prejudice the civil suit brought by (Nafissatou) Diallo," the hotel maid who made the charges, she said.<br /><br />"It angers me to hear both Mr Strauss-Kahn's friends and (Socialist leader) Martine Aubry herself (expressing their) happiness" at his release, Mansouret said.<br /><br />Aubry on Tuesday said she was "immensely relieved" at Strauss-Kahn's release. "I am very happy for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and (his wife) Anne Sinclair," she said.<br /><br />"I hope that this will bring us to also respect the word of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, to let him do what he most wants to, that is to return to normal life and to express himself when he decides to," she said.<br /><br />Other French Socialists have expressed relief at Strauss-Kahn's release, including presidential hopeful Francois Hollande who on Monday said he was "thrilled" at reports that prosecutors planned to drop the case.<br /><br />Banon, 32, accuses Strauss-Kahn of attacking her during an interview in February 2003 in a central Paris flat.</p>