( CNN ) -- It may feel to us , in France , as if Dominique Strauss-Kahn has constantly been in the news since that fateful afternoon of May 14 , 2011 , when NYPD officers arrested him on board an Air France flight bound to Berlin . The then-head of the International Monetary Fund was due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to try to solve the euro crisis . The man the French like to call DSK has only spoken twice about the day he fell from grace , the day he risked a brilliant international career , like many others to play Russian roulette . The first time he talked publicly was in September 2011 on French television . Now , almost two years later , he has given his first English language interview , on CNN . The French were n't very tender with him the first time he spoke out ; they will undoubtedly be as severe the second time . DSK says how he still feels `` very angry '' at the U.S. justice system for having paraded him , handcuffed , for the whole world to see , `` at the precise time when a man should be considered innocent . '' Two years later , DSK still smarting over 'perp walk ' Those images were , and indeed remain , shocking . It is illegal in France to show the face of people arrested by the police until they are proved guilty . It is , however , difficult to feel sorry for him now , especially after all that we have learnt since : his admission that he attended orgies in France with prostitutes paid for by friends , although he assures us he could not have possibly realized they were prostitutes because he only ever saw them naked . This man was going to be France 's next president after five years of Sarkozy rule . I would have voted for him , as no doubt millions of my compatriots would have done too , convinced as we were of his dazzling intelligence and that he was the man to resolve the euro crisis . We vaguely knew of his womanizing , certainly not a crime in French books , except we were n't aware it was pathological . Strauss-Kahn does n't however dwell too long on his Sofitel demise and swiftly moves on to explain how Europe is suffering a crisis of leadership . Quoting an Arabic proverb , he says that an army of lions led by a sheep will always be defeated by an army of sheep lead by a lion . Does he unconsciously imply that he was the lion Europe could have had and badly needed to dig itself out of its financial quagmire , if only fate had n't decided otherwise ? Possibly . Meanwhile , the former head of the IMF blames the European institutions for failing to implement hard decisions and for dithering . He says that some European leaders are `` perfectly up-to-date '' and capable but that they are victims of deficient decision-making mechanisms at a supra-national level . Would he give , as France has tried to convince a reluctant Germany since 2008 , more power to the European Central Bank and its director Mario Draghi ? Probably . As Martin Schultz , president of the European Parliament tweeted this week : `` The U.S. have one currency , one central bank and one government . Europe has one currency , one central bank and ... 17 governments ! It can not go on like this , '' before adding : `` We can not live with 17 individual policies on the euro . We need one single euro governance . '' According to Strauss-Kahn , cohesion in decision making in Europe is not the only stumbling block . The European banking system is also at fault , `` sick , '' and needs reforming before growth can settle back in . Reforming traders ' pay and bonuses is just but a small part of the problem , Strauss-Kahn says , what is even more important is to purge the whole system . When Strauss-Kahn first spoke to the French in September 2011 , he also dived into European economics to give a mini-lecture on how to go about the financial crisis . The French public reacted angrily : what was he doing , distilling his knowledge , when he was in no position to actually help the country any longer ? The French perfectly knew of his skills , so lamentably wasted ; they just did n't want to hear him anymore . The world will probably feel the same watching his interview with CNN . Strauss-Kahn 's voice does n't resonate anymore ; it was lost , once and for all , in a hotel suite in Manhattan . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Agnes Poirier .
Dominique Strauss-Kahn gives first English-language interview since arrest , on CNN . DSK says he still feels `` very angry '' at U.S. justice system for having paraded him . He also said that the case against him was a political attack by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his allies in France to discredit him. French know of his skills , Poirier argues ; they just did n't want to hear him anymore .