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PARIS (Reuters) – A diminutive assemble of land activists have organized an cyberspace crusade to beam roses to the blackamoor who has accused past IMF nous Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting to ravishment her in New York.

At www.une-rose-pour-ophelia.fr, well-wishers are solicited to "Offer a chromatic to Ophelia," a nickname for the 32-year-old chambermaid who has accused Strauss-Kahn of offensive her.

Her claims and his subsequent arrest terminal hebdomad ordered soured an planetary firestorm, suasion the striking economist's resignation from the IMF and raffish his hopes of streaming for the land presidency in 2012.

French feminists have accused open figures and the media of showing more anxiety for Strauss-Kahn than the maid -- whose accusations that he locked her in a room and unnatural himself on her -- have led to charges of a malefactor sexual act, attempted ravishment and unlawful imprisonment.

"Dear Ophelia, a chromatic to forgive us for not thinking sufficiency of you," reads the statement on the website, which has attracted sufficiency clicks since its launch Saturday to beam some 400 roses to the woman, who is in protective custody in New York.

"We have talked a lot most our countryman, his detention, his emotions, and not sufficiency most yours. That's why, without presuming a ruling yet to be handed downbound and respecting the assumption of innocence, we beam you these flowers," it says.

Saturday, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in town against what they said was a batch of misanthropist statement from open figures. [nLDE74K069]

The website's organizers -- a diminutive assemble of semipolitical activists with libertarian views called "Les Liberaux" -- module beam the roses to the duty of the woman's attorney at the end of the week. The website clicks are free, and all costs module be acknowledged by the organizers.

Businessman and attorney Didier Salavert, digit of the group's members, said that at stake in the Strauss-Kahn intimacy is the vocalise of the individualist against more powerful interests.

"Power in France is rattling clannish," he said. "Where is the immunity of style here?"

(Editing by Apostle Casciato)

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