Now that’s more like it:

Speaking to reporters, French government spokesman Luc Chatel said: “We have a judicial procedure under way, for a serious affair, the rape of a minor, on which the American and Swiss legal systems are doing their job.”

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner have written to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton calling for Polanski to be freed.

But the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has distanced himself from the move by asking his ministers to show “greater restraint” in defending him.

He added that despite a “leading Polish director” being involved, it is still a “case of rape and of punishment for having sex with a child”.
[...]
French film-maker Luc Besson, who directed the 1994 movie Leon, has also refused to lend his support.

Speaking to French radio station RTL, he said: “I have a lot of affection for him, he is a man that I like very much ... but nobody should be above the law.”

Of course, some of the useful idiots show up in the story, too, but we’re focusing on the positive here…

Read the rest.