The French government is walking back it’s public support for Roman Polanski:
PARIS – France’s government changed its tone on Wednesday on the arrest of Roman Polanski for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, describing the charges as serious after initially rushing to the film director’s defense.
France and Poland, where the 76-year-old Oscar-winning director spent his childhood, at first loudly protested against Polanski’s arrest last weekend.
But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that it was for judges, not diplomats, to handle the case which dates back to 1977.
After French politicians across the spectrum initially voiced strong unease over the arrest, a government spokesman modified the official line on Wednesday, saying that Polanski was “neither above nor below the law.”
“A judicial procedure is under way concerning a serious case, the rape of a minor, and the U.S. and Swiss justice systems are doing their work,” spokesman Luc Chatel told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
Thanks guys, that’s what you should’ve been saying in the first place.
Forget Sweden. To heck with Texas. I may move to France after all.
I was thinking something about cheese-eating surrender monkeys, but in this case, they’ve stumbled unwittingly into the right thing.