Dominique Strauss Kahn: US 'perp walk' was terrible Mr Strauss Kahn said the "perp walk," in which he was paraded handcuffed infront of the world's media, was "a terrible thing." In his first English-language television interview since he resigned as head of the IMF in 2011, he told CNN: "The problem is, it's a moment where in all European, American society you're supposed to be innocent, you're supposed to be innocent until you're convicted." You're just shown to everybody as if you were a criminal, at a moment where nobody knows if it's true or not -- maybe you're a criminal, maybe you're not. That's going to be proved later on, and so it is just unfair to put people in that way in front of the rest of the world when you just don't know what they have done. Mr Strauus-Kahn - once tipped as a future president of France - was arrested in May 2011 for trying to rape Guinea immigrant Nafissatou Diallo when she came to clean his suite in New York's Sofitel hotel. He was charged with attempted rape, sexual abuse, a criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching and held at the city's notorious Ryker's Island prison. He claimed Ms Diallo had consented to sex but later described the encounter as 'a moral failure' that he would regret his whole life. All charges were then dropped a month later over concerns about the housekeeper's credibility. She went on to file a civil case against him.