The French have to be crazy if that’s how they would pick a president.
He was the frontrunner to be president of France before this incident in NYC. If this case is dismissed because of the severe character flaws described here for the maid, he will appear a victim of her and US law enforcement and the US legal system.
It could be that with his arrest too many other, similar storiees have emerged and he is just toast, but I could certainly see him and a PR team turning him into a heroic victim, a good and decent and important man, a man falsely accused, then dragged off his return flight home to be booked on outrageous and made up charges