Film director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police Saturday on a warrant issued 31 years ago, when he fled the United States after being convicted of unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer.
Authorities stopped 76-year-old Polanski when he arrived at the Zurich airport en route to the Zurich Film Festival where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award, according to a New York Times report. Authorities detained the director and are preparing to extradite him to the U.S.
Polanski was charged in 1978 of luring Geimer into Jack Nicholson’s home, plying her with drugs, and then having sex with her. She has since publicly forgiven him.
Polanski tried last year to get the case dismissed based on “a pattern of misconduct and improper communications” among Los Angeles officials, but the court denied his request, saying he would have to return to the U.S. before his case could be reviewed.
The U.S. Department of Justice has not yet commented on the case, but in an accidentally leaked internal memo, an Associated Press reporter theorized that Swiss officials ordered Polanksi’s arrest after all these years because “they’re under intense pressure over UBS and want to throw the U.S. a bone.”
Source: Examiner
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