The two had written to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy asserting their innocence and asking her to intervene.
“It’s thanks to her that we are here,” 20-year-old Celine Faye said of Bruni-Sarkozy on television, standing next to her friend and fellow inmate 19-year-old Sarah Zaknoun.
The two were pardoned by Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, having been sentenced to jail in 2008 after six kg of cocaine were discovered in their luggage. They said the drug had been placed there without their knowledge.
