Strauss-Kahn admits 'moral failings'

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, says his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid “did not involve violence, constraint or aggression” but still was a “moral failing” on his part.

In his first interview since his May 14 arrest over accusations of sexual assault by the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, Mr Strauss-Kahn said today in an interview with France’s TF1 television channel “what happened was more than an inappropriate relation. It was an error”.