Poland Revives Effort to Extradite Roman Polanski
The Polish government says it will revive its effort to extradite Roman Polanski to the U.S. https://t.co/WwyJxh6cGW pic.twitter.com/gC0O4QJpLe
- New York Times World (@nytimesworld) May 31, 2016
In October 2015, a judge in Krakow, ruled that "turning over Mr. Polanski would be an “obviously unlawful” deprivation of liberty and that the state of California was unlikely to provide humane conditions of confinement for the filmmaker, who is 82."
But the Polish government said today that it would revive an effort to extradite Roman Polanski, whom the American authorities have wanted for decades. Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said he had decided to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, calling the trial judge’s decision a “serious breach” of the extradition agreement between the United States and Poland.
Ziobro said in an interview to a radio station that “If he was just a regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I’m sure he’d have been deported from any country to the U.S. a long time ago”, and he's still in Poland only because of his fame.
Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to Europe the next year, on the eve of his sentencing.
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