News that US prosecutors have doubts about the credibility of the alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case has sparked a media frenzy in France.
It came as a "thunderbolt for France's political class", according to a headline in Le Figaro.Online editions of the centre-right daily and other French newspapers snapped up the story just after it broke early on Friday, Paris time.
One of the main left-of-centre newspapers, Le Monde, reacted by starting up a live event page at 0708 (0608 GMT).
A "coup de theatre", the left-of-centre Liberation wrote, its story netting some 700 comments by 0830 as readers proclaimed "DSK is innocent!!!" and asked "Who set up DSK?"
In the media melee, Le Monde also used the term "coup de theatre" in its story while Lionel Jospin, the former French Socialist leader, was quoted on its live page using the word "thunderbolt".
"DSK" was only recently seen as the French left's best hope of winning next year's presidential election.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, who resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund to defend himself, strongly denies the charges.
He is due to appear in court in New York later on Friday.
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