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[Lion7718]

Source: The Guardian

For 31 years he lived as the world's most celebrated fugitive, feted by his peers in the film industry while on the run from American police after admitting having sex with a child.

But, it was revealed today, the past has finally caught up with Roman Polanski. The film director was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday on a decades-old warrant relating to the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

The director had travelled to Switzerland to accept a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich film festival, the organisers of which expressed "great consternation and shock" at his detention.

The 76-year-old director of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown pleaded guilty to the assault at the time but jumped bail and fled the US the following year to avoid a lengthy jail sentence. For more than three decades he has lived in exile in Paris, refusing to return to the US even when he won an Oscar in 2002 for The Pianist.

Zurich police said he was detained at immigration in Zurich on Saturday night at the request of the US justice department and was in custody awaiting extradition.

"I confirm that Mr Polanski has been arrested. The American authorities issued an international search request in 2005 in relation to a 1978 warrant," said Guido Balmer of the Swiss justice ministry. "There was a valid arrest request and we knew when he was coming. That's why he was taken into custody." The US will now need to make a formal extradition request, however, and Polanski is likely to challenge his detention in the Swiss courts.

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[vampirechronicles]

he settled with his victim *monetary amount unknown, and the victim wants the case thrown out.

[philgorp]

he paid her .
that makes her an underage prostitute
and he's no longer a peodophile. or is he?

[vampirechronicles]

philgorp, on Sep 28 2009, 06:59 PM, said:

he paid her .
that makes her an underage prostitute
and he's no longer a peodophile. or is he?

what i dont understand is why are people backing this guy!
he is being accused of this crime, and he settled monetary with the girl, as I said yesterday, and she wants the charges dropped why after 30 years other people are backing this guy up?
As with her being underaged at the time and he didnt know it, well that is not an excuse though, apparently he has the support of others though.
I dont think he should get away with anything thats for sure. the law is the law. but if its been more 30 years and he hasnt done nothing else since, then what is the reason for him to go to jail? why wait 30 years, eh he didnt enter us territory.

either way i dont agree he should get away with it though. but 30 years time has passed? so i really dont think they should do anything to him, since the girl, now a women wants the charges dropped, but the law is the law.

[rastaX]

If you're rich and famous, you walk.

If you're a 19 year old kid who goes too far with his 15 year old girlfriend, you take the hit..........

I don't doubt that there may have been extenuating circumstances, that he is not necessarily a pedo, but he drugged and had sex with a 13 year old girl. At the least, Chris Hansen needs to have a talk with him............

[vampirechronicles]

rastaX, on Sep 30 2009, 08:51 AM, said:

If you're rich and famous, you walk.

If you're a 19 year old kid who goes too far with his 15 year old girlfriend, you take the hit..........

I don't doubt that there may have been extenuating circumstances, that he is not necessarily a pedo, but he drugged and had sex with a 13 year old girl. At the least, Chris Hansen needs to have a talk with him............

see, thats the thing, i didnt know the whole story, the media news wanna be *big wigs* only post part of a story, I didnt know that he drugged her. I read somewhere that he thought she was 18, at the time.
That changes alot now, that I know this. He had no right to do this, even 30 years after the fact he should face jail time.

[El Comandante]

The worst thing is that he fled the country and has flaunted himself in France and made excuses for his actions over the many years. Who knows what effect this guys actions had on this woman. Yeah she got paid but the law is the law. It's time to pay the piper.

[philgorp]

when you have folks like woody allen rooting for you. you should be worried.