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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 7, 2015 7:11:59 GMT -7
Poland to Consider Extraditing Polanski Roman Polanski will be questioned by Polish officials who have received an extradition request from officials in Los Angeles. The director, who lives in France, has been in Poland preparing to shoot a new movie. “Prosecutors will want to summon Polanski for questioning,” a spokesman for the prosecutor general’s office in Warsaw said. Polanski pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 1977 but then fled the U.S. the following year.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 7, 2015 21:33:22 GMT -7
US asks Poland to extradite Roman Polanski Jan 7th 2015 10:54AM h ttp://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/07/us-asks-poland-to-extradite-roman-polanski/21126201/PHOTO GALLERY | 1 of 21 IMAGES Director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of Saint-Laurent at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 17, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Poland has been asked to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States, where he is wanted on 1977 charges of sex with a minor, an official said Wednesday. Spokesman for the prosecutor general, Mateusz Martyniuk, told The Associated Press that the request from Los Angles prosecutors was being forwarded to Krakow, where Polanski's case is handled. In October, Krakow prosecutors refused a U.S. request to arrest Polanski, 81, but questioned him and obliged him to turn up on every summons. Polanski was in Warsaw for the opening of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and then traveled to Krakow, his childhood city. The Oscar-winning director plans to a movie on the Dreyfus affair, the early 20th century French spy scandal, in Poland in February and March. One of Polanski's lawyers, Jerzy Stachowicz, said Wednesday that the team would contest the extradition bid. Martyniuk said that as a rule Poland does not extradite its citizens. In December, a judge in Los Angeles rejected Polanski's bid for a new hearing. Paris-born to Polish Jewish parents, Polanski spent his childhood and youth in Poland but lives in France. He holds Polish and French passports, but his movements are restricted by an Interpol warrant in effect in 188 countries. He travels freely between Switzerland, France and Poland. Polanski pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse, and was sentenced to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. He was released after 42 days and, fearing the judge would force him to serve the remainder of the sentence, he fled from the United States. In 2010 Switzerland refused to extradite Polanski, though he spent 290 days in jail or under house arrest while the case was considered. Polanski won an Academy Award for best director for his 2002 film "The Pianist" and was nominated for 1974's "Chinatown" and 1979's "Tess." His "Knife in the Water" was nominated in 1963 for the best foreign language film Oscar. |
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Post by Jaga on Jan 7, 2015 21:39:22 GMT -7
John, thanks for posting. I saw info about it today in the news. I think, times changed and what in the past was pretty much a secret become not acceptable anymore. Just like the story with Bill Cosby.
I think that Polanski is probably too old to change... still. He is at least learning from this experience since his personal freedom is limited.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 14, 2015 8:35:39 GMT -7
BBC News Entertainment & Arts 14 January 2015 Last updated at 05:59 ET
Polanski to cooperate in Poland over US extradition
 Roman Polanski has said he will cooperate with Polish authorities over an extradition request to the US, where he is wanted for a 1977 sex case. The Oscar-winning director, who is currently working on a film in Krakow, served 42 days for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old before fleeing the country. Polish prosecutors have confirmed they will question the 81-year-old, who has both Polish and French passports. Polanski said he had "confidence in Poland's justice system". "I will submit myself to the procedure and we will see," he told a TV news channel, "I hope everything will be alright". Poland generally does not allow extradition of its citizens, but has an extradition agreement with the US who filed a request at the beginning of January. Polanski was arrested in 2009 by Swiss authorities after travelling to Zurich to attend a film festival, but avoided extradition. His movements are restricted by a warrant in effect in 188 countries, but he has avoided extradition by travelling between France, Poland and Switzerland. The director is working on a new film, An Officer and A Spy, about a 19th Century French scandal dubbed "the Dreyfus affair". He won an Oscar in 2003 for directing The Pianist, a harrowing story set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw that mirrored his own childhood experiences. |
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 20, 2015 7:21:24 GMT -7
January 20, 2015 Tuesday
The Jerusalem Post - Israel News
Prosecutors: Poland sends request to extradite Polanski to court
By REUTERS
01/20/2015
KRAKOW, Poland - Polish prosecutors have sent a request for the extradition of filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex-crime conviction to a regional court in Krakow, the Prosecutors' Office in Krakow said on Tuesday.
"The further actions in this case will depend on the court," the prosecutors' office said in a statement.
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Post by pieter on Jan 20, 2015 15:41:51 GMT -7
I have a dualistic feeling about this. Mixed emotions.
Esthetic and ethical feelings clash in me!
The artist and 'cultural ctitic' in me supports every artistic quality product with quintessence which is produced.
I will always defend the fine arts and culture!
Every international art house or Hollywood style movie which is produced in Poland is important for Polish Public Relations, destinstion or citybranding (if the movie is made in a certain city) and thus the Polish economy and tourist industry.
From the other side I am a human being and against the abuse of little girls by grown up men. But Polanski is maybe punished enough by his travel restrictions and the fact that he can't travel to the USA and can't make movies there.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by karl on Jan 21, 2015 6:25:22 GMT -7
My self do have an opinion of this situation dealing with a dual crime of Mr. Polanski.
One is: since when is such a crime, even though a sex crime against a minor which I believe would constitute a felony, to go international?
Two: Being of two crimes-one crime against a minor being the sex crime. Whilst crime two, would constitute a violation of a court order. All occurring on or about 38 years past.
Three: Is their not a statute of limitations in the USA for limits in time for both charges? Or is the voice of one court to dectate across international lines of authority as a dectate?
My concern is not so much of the crime committed although at same time, do not condone the crimes against a child. My concern is the time gape of the extradition order and the limits of the court authority in this case. For it involves not an international crime nor of a magnitude of such expense that may be justified by such means.
Whilst the above may be as it is, if to be that Mr. Polanski was to infact return to the location of crimes committed, it would be after all theses years, a manner of washing the slate clean. In this manner, the US court of decision would then have the court record recorded as case concluded. The investigating police agency would then have the case closed and cleared of the open file.
Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Feb 18, 2015 4:30:53 GMT -7
BBC News Entertainment & Arts
17 February 2015 Last updated at 12:03 ET
Roman Polanski to attend extradition hearing
Film director Roman Polanski is to attend an extradition hearing in court after the US lodged a request with Poland to have him brought back.
Polish-born Polanski has been wanted by US police since 1977, when he fled the country after being charged with having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
He has been working in Poland to prepare for a film he wants to shoot later this year.
The hearing will take place in Krakow on 25 February.
Even if the court rules Polanski should be extradited, the justice minister can approve or reject the decision.
His lawyer Jan Olszewski confirmed his client would be there. Polanski, 81, is currently in Poland preparing to make a film.
Six offences
Prosecutors in Poland refused a US request to arrest him in October but see no legal obstacles to the extradition.
If the Polish court agrees to the extradition, a final decision would be taken by the Polish justice minister.
BBC Warsaw Correspondent Adam Easton said it appears unlikely Poland would allow Polanski to be extradited, where he is viewed by many as one of the country's greatest living artists.
The Rosemary's Baby director was held in Switzerland in 2009 after traveling to Zurich to pick up a prize at a film festival.
However, the extradition bid failed and he was eventually allowed to return to his home in France.
He has been to Poland several times in recent years.
In 2010, the Polish prosecutor general said Polanski could not be extradited because under Polish law too much time had passed since the offenses.
Polanski was originally charged with six offenses including rape and sodomy in 1977. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sex following a plea bargain and served 42 days in a US prison undergoing psychiatric tests.
But, believing the judge was going to renege on the deal and extend his sentence, he chose to skip bail in 1978, fleeing the US to Britain, and then to France.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Feb 25, 2015 5:33:08 GMT -7
Girl raped by director Polanski tells of impact on lifewww.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24124258In the late 1970s the film director Roman Polanski admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. He spent 42 days in prison then fled the United States because he feared being given a longer sentence. He was rearrested in Switzerland in 2009 and spent months in prison and under house arrest before being released. Much has been said and written about what happened, but we have hardly heard anything from the girl herself. Now the woman at the centre of the decades-old scandal, Samantha Geimer, has written a book about how the event changed her life. She told HARDTalk's Sarah Montague she feels the media and legal circus that followed was more painful than what happened that night.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 28, 2015 7:23:26 GMT -7
Polish prosecutors uphold decision not to extradite Roman Polanski over statutory rape
Agence France-Presse 27 Nov 2015 at 08:18 ET  Polish prosecutors said Friday they would not appeal a court decision to extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States to face sentencing for statutory rape. The prosecutor’s office in the southern city of Krakow said the October 30 decision by a Krakow court “to refuse to hand Roman Polanski over to US authorities was justified”. The decision “ends the legal proceedings” against the 82-year-old French-Polish director of “The Pianist”, “Chinatown” and “Rosemary’s Baby”, leaving him free to reside in Poland, one of his lawyer’s, Jerzy Stachowicz, told AFP. For the court decision to take effect, Poland’s justice minister must now communicate it to US authorities. Zbigniew Ziobro, justice minister in the country’s new conservative government, had previously spoken out in favour of extraditing Polanski over the 1977 rape of Samantha Geimer in Los Angeles. Polanski’s lawyer brushed aside questions over what would happen if Ziobro did not confirm the Krakow court ruling, saying “if the minister respects the rules and procedures, he (Polanski) has no reason to worry”. The judge presiding over the extradition hearing in Krakow was fiercely critical of the original US investigation into the case, saying the US judges and prosecutors had flouted “the rules of a fair trial”. “Had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights,” judge Dariusz Mazur said. The United States filed its extradition request in January. In February, Polanski testified for a marathon nine hours at the first closed-door extradition hearing. He is wanted in the United States for sentencing over the rape of Samantha Geimer after a photo shoot in Los Angeles. Geimer was 13 at the time. Polanski was 43. He pleaded guilty at the time to unlawful sex with a minor, or statutory rape, avoiding a trial, but then fled the country fearing a hefty sentence. He now lives in France. |
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Post by Jaga on Nov 28, 2015 10:16:43 GMT -7
Polansky is a genius, but he also believes that he can do anything he wants. I hope that this process against him made him realize that he has to pay for the mistakes and bad behavior sometimes.
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Post by pieter on Nov 28, 2015 15:11:57 GMT -7
I agree with you Jaga. And I hope Polansky can make some more good movies in Poland and France. It would be nice if he could make some Polish language movies again. He started with Polish movies.
The Fat and the Lean
Polanski plays the lean man himself
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Post by Jaga on Nov 29, 2015 21:37:44 GMT -7
Pieter, Polanski is a great director, but his movies are slightly mad and... I would never want to be his wife of his family. But crazy people do amazing things and normal people are just... normal... and have normal families...
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