Polanski
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- digdre0
arrested because he had sex in '78 with a 13yo.
- lambsy0
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Swiss police arrested film director Roman Polanski at the request of U.S. authorities on the basis of a 1978 arrest warrant, the Zurich Film Festival said today in an e-mailed statement.
Polanski, who was held on his arrival in Switzerland yesterday, was due to receive an award at the festival today, the organizers said.
In July, Polanski asked a California appeals court to overturn a judge's refusal to consider his request to throw out a 1977 case in which he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
California Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, who said in February that Polanski would have to come to the U.S. to get a hearing on his request, invoked the fugitive disentitlement doctrine to avoid any consideration of the facts and circumstances which forced Mr. Polanski to leave the country,'' Polanski's s lawyers said July 7 in a court filing.
Polanski, 76, left the U.S. in 1978 before he was sentenced and is considered a fugitive in the country. He hasn't been able to return to the U.S. since then. The director, a French citizen, asked the Los Angeles court in December to dismiss the case because of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct.
- 3030
Welcome to Switzerland...
- TheBlueOne0
You think the Swiss are trying to make nice because of all the secret bank accounts? "Here Mr. Uncle Sam, stop looking into our secret bank accounts and take..um..er..here! Roman Polanski!"
- GeorgesII0
- LOL!Ambushstudio
- HAHA WTF!benfal99
- LOLOLOLOL ™dMullins
- hahahahaMeeklo
- jimbojones0
well finally, the guy is a fucking rapist, how far can protectionism go? brilliant director though... chop his dick off and make sure he makes a movie about it.
- CygnusZero40
Most creative types have some sort of fatal flaw.
- most people do.marychain
- Usually seems to be a little more dramatic in people like him.CygnusZero4
- raf0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/enter… says
The victim at the centre of the case, Samantha Geimer, has previously asked for the charges to be dropped, saying the continued publication of details "causes harm to me, my husband and children".
She has also called the court's insistence that Mr Polanski appear in person "a cruel joke".
- Andrew_D0
Come on, it was just one 13 year old, dude makes sick films!
Kidding, but if you watch the Doc on HBO, the whole things is messed up, from the judge, to the girl's story and him taking the plea. If my wife was murdered by a Manson, I might do something fucked up to.
Doesn't this shit go on all the time in Hollywood? Stevie Wonder has like 18 illegitimate children or something. Jimmy Page would routinely bang 15 years olds, maybe Roman wanted to one up him?
- For the record, I think he's deserving of serving time for the crime he committed.Andrew_D
- The difference is those girls probably WANTED to fuck Jimmy Page. This sounded, well, worse.ismith
- you do something fucked up, go to jail, simple as thatjimbojones
- For the record, Charles Manson never murdered anyone.mg33
- instrmntl0
i'm glad he was finally arrested. he needs to serve his time.
once he does that, they we can celebrate him as a director.
- locustsloth0
What's his side of the story?
- freitag0
i believe that Samantha had forgiven him a long time ago. this seems to be about sheer politics between Switzerland and the US. Bit sad, seeing it was so long ago.
on the other hand i hope he gets a a fair trial and not too long punishment so he can go anywhere afterwards again and perhaps start making films in Hollywood again. :)I also vaguely remember he was kind of messed up in his mind after his wife was murdered by that Charles Manson gang..
Whatever, i may be leaning toward his defense as i am quite a huge fan of his films.
- so by this logic if i were to make some really kick ass movies then i could fuck any 13 yr old i want? gross!dan5382
- jimbojones0
I think the quality of his movies is out of question, but a rapist (or any criminal) confessing the exploit has to be put in jail, I mean wtf? The whole fucking world knows it, how come 30 years have to pass before he's caught? Doesn't matter he's a brilliant director, doesn't matter the girl forgives him, doesn't fucking matter he was upset with the terrible death of his wife and baby; he did what he did and he has to be punished dammit.
- it matters what the girl saysversion3
- what she says NOW, after all the publicity had an impact on her life and she doesn't even believe he'd ever get what he deserves?jimbojones
- and even if she's sincere, we have laws for a fucking reason, I'll kill your family and you say, meh, I didn't like them anyway, vaya con dios dude, I don't see me not being in jailjimbojones
- I still don't see me anywhere than in jailjimbojones
- gojimboismith
- I don't know where v3 livesjimbojones
- jimbojones, you are a omplete and utter retard. i seriously estimated you differently.freitag
- I just go apeshit over 2 class society, who the fuck is he to rape little girls without punishment? I enjoy his films but it doesn't matter at alljimbojones
- but it doesn't matter at alljimbojones
- uan0
Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said although Polanski had visited Switzerland in the past, his movements were not known beforehand. This time he was widely billed to be attending the Zurich Film Festival. The ministry said Polanski has been on a US wanted list since 2005.
"It is the rule of law and everybody is treated the same way, whether it is an ordinary citizen or a famous personality," said Widmer-Schlumpf. "It is purely a legal matter."
- benfal990
Petition is in progress for his liberation:
signed by yet: Costa-Gavras, Wong Kar-Wai, Fanny Ardant, Ettore Scola, Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Tornatore, Monica Bellucci, Abderrahmane Sissako, Tony Gatlif, Pierre Jolivet, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Paolo Sorrentino, Michele Placido, Barbet Schroeder, Gilles Jacob, et Bertrand Tavernier. And those: Cinémathèque Française, le Festival de Cannes, la Société des auteurs compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), l'ARP and the groupe 25 images.
- twats. how many of them would write a petition for a rapist of their own daughers? even if he's a genius?jimbojones
- + 1MrPierre