Brussels, May 17 (AFP) Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister heading the eurozone, has said he was "sad and upset" by his friend Dominique Strauss-Kahn's court appearance -- and angered by those already seeking a successor.
"He's a good friend of mine, I didn't like the pictures I saw on TV this morning," Juncker told a news conference in Brussels yesterday after talks between 27 European finance ministers hours after the IMF chief was denied bail by a US judge.
"Mr. Strauss-Kahn is in the hands of American justice.
It's not up to us to comment on this but it makes me deeply, deeply sad."
Juncker, who worked with Strauss-Kahn in flying to the rescue of debt-hit euro nations over the last year, also said it was "indecent" that some European governments had already raised the question of who should take his place.