French President Nicolas Sarkozy helped Roman Polanski get bail after the filmmaker spent two months in a Swiss prison on a child sex case, it has emerged.
The director's sister-in-law Mathilde Seigner hinted that the leader has been instrumental to the recent development.
"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. The President has been very effective," Times Online quoted her as telling Le Parisien newspaper.
Sarkozy had earlier expressed his views on the director being held on a US warrant for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Last month, he told Le Figaro newspaper
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