Because If We Locked Him Up We'd Have To Have Armed Police Descend On Bohemian Grove Just To Be Consistent
Times: Sarkozy 'very effective' in securing Polanski release
Roman Polanski’s family yesterday praised the role played by Nicolas Sarkozy in securing the film director’s release on bail after two months in a Swiss prison.
The French President “has been very effective” behind the scenes, according to the film director’s sister-in-law Mathilde Seigner, as Mr Polanski prepared to move from a cell to house arrest in his luxury chalet in the exclusive Alpine village of Gstaad.
Ms Seigner refused to elaborate on the nature of Mr Sarkozy’s assistance but the President may have been influenced by his wife Carla Bruni’s own connections with the chic Parisian artisic set to which Mr Polanski, his actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner and her sister all belong.
The Swiss authorities said that Mr Polanski would be allowed out once the agreed bail of 4.5 million Swiss Francs had been received. They have ordered that he should not leave his chalet - for fear that the first-rate skier might slip over the nearby border via a mountain pass into his adopted French homeland and escape US justice a second time.
“I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it is thanks to the President that Roman has been freed, but he has been super,” Mathilde Seigner told Le Parisien newspaper.
“The President has been very effective.”
Just goes to show what can happen when you have friends in high places, unsurprisingly.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you are rich and famous you can get away with murder, rape or paedophilia. Just as long as you have friends in high places.
We are living in a morally bankrupt society, so no surprises there really.
No not surprising at all, but just incase anyone hasn't noticed, our society is run by the worst of the worst!
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