Strauss-Kahn has ‘mental illness’: Ex French PM

He says it was clearly medical problems that drove DSK to become embroiled in repeated sex scandals.

Former French prime minister Michel Rocard has described former International Monetary Fund chief and a frontrunner for the socialist presidential nomination,Dominique Strauss-Kahn,as mentally ill.

Eighty one-year-old Rocard said during a television interview that it was clearly medical problems that drove Strauss-Kahn to become embroiled in repeated sex scandals.

This man quite obviously has a mental illness that makes it difficult for him to control his urges, the Telegraph quoted Rocard,as saying.

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Its a shame,because he is very talented. But I no longer have any faith in his abilities, he added.

Strauss Kahn,63,was recently freed from charges of raping a New York hotel maid.

He also faces charges for the attempted rape of young French writer Tristane Banon in 2003. (

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