It was "the interview that every television channel dreamed of getting", according to French daily Le Parisien. 

Former IMF chief and French Economic Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn (known as DSK in France) went face-to-face with Richard Quest of US network CNN on Tuesday evening, slamming everything from his "terrible" treatment by the US media, to the "sheep" leading Europe at the moment.

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Asked about the "perp walk" he was forced to perform before the world's news media, after being arrested on suspicion of raping a hotel chamber maid in 2011 at the New York Sofitel, DSK fumed: "I think it's terrible."

"The perp walk takes place at the moment when you're supposed to be innocent. So what happens is, you're just shown to everybody as if you were a criminal, at the moment where nobody knows if it's true or not…So it's just unfair to put people like that in front of the rest of the world…"

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Turning his wrath towards the European Union, DSK then got philosophical in slamming what he called a "crisis of leadership" on the continent.

"There is an Arabic saying. An army of lions led by a sheep will always be defeated by an army of sheep led by a lion," he said.

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The following is an excerpt of the interview from CNN.