Strauss-Kahn admits moral failing

The former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn spoke publicly for the first time on Sunday about the rape charges brought against him by a hotel chambermaid in New York. In an interview broadcast by TF1 the 62-year-old admitted a moral failing. The liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera praises the public apology: "Instead of cloaking himself in silence and avoiding the public glare Dominique Strauss-Kahn is defending himself with the same means that led to his ruin: television cameras. As a public figure he has recognised that any attempt to pass off the scandal as a private affair would be grotesque and ridiculous. ... He had the decency not to slip into the role of a victim of character assassination or stir up fantasies about a political or judicial plot. ... It's almost as if he's asking himself for forgiveness, for the enormous waste of talent and for gambling away the great opportunity history presented him with on a silver platter. He was one of the most powerful men in the world. Now he's hardly counts for anything. Because public opinion is unforgiving."

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