I don't believe that the French are more inclined to conspiracy theories than other nationals. The 911 conspiracy theories are shared by countless people around the world, including French, Americans, and a very large proportion of Arabs and Muslims.

For each international affair, there is always a tendency to defend those of the same country, which, in my opinion only reminds us that we are still in a world driven by national interests, dangerous patriotism, corporatism, and generally speaking, the lack of conscience in the common destiny of all the living things on a planet floating in a dangerous environment.

At the heart of these theories lies information trust. Because few information can be verified without doubt, our "trust systems" play a big role in our belief in specific alternative theories.

These trust systems are built over time by many factors and experiences. States, especially powerful and righteous states, often fail to recognize the long term impacts of their actions and inactions on the trust systems of other nationals.

In the case of the USA, recent history is littered with improper conduct of international affairs that has eroded other nationals trust in the USA : constant references to national interests, patriotism and the flag hailed, refusal to sign the declaration of human rights, the Chagos Islands affair, false intelligence leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, torture at Guantanamo Bay, refusal to hold trials of detained captives, refusal to investigate the 2007 Iraq murder by US soldiers from an Apache helicopter revealed in a video leaked last year, holding without charges in solitary confinement for almost a year of non-convicted Bradley Manning, to name a few.

All of these proven facts, the known aversion of America against socialism as evidenced in the last US presidential elections, the lack of consideration by American journalists of DSK presumed innocence as is clearly the case of this journalist, raises the possibly for injustice in this international affair against the accused.

I personally believe that this kind of international affair would be better judged by an international court in full respect of the presumption of innocence, although I am not aware of any international law that would allow this type of trial.

The author of this article fails to properly analyse all of the above and much more, and therefore falls into the trap of patriotism in a confused amalgam of past unpleasant experiences he had with French individuals that he met in restaurants where people drink too much and say stupid things that they don't really believe when sober.