| The French government has dropped its public support for Roman Polanski, saying the Oscar-winning director held in Switzerland over a three-decade-old child sex case is not "above the law."
"Roman Polanski is neither above nor beneath the law," 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," he said, adding: "One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest have caused."
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