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The rapist Roman Polanski is a free man now
LONDON!!:
--- Quote from: The Almighty ELANO on July 12, 2010, 10:21:38 AM ---Film director goes free after nine months under house arrest in Switzerland
Roman Polanski, the film director who has been under house arrest in Switzerland for the past nine months, has been declared a free man after officials decided not to extradite him to the United States.
The Swiss justice ministry said it had decided against handing the fugitive director to the US, where he is wanted for sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl 33 years ago.
"The Swiss justice ministry will not extradite Roman Polanski to the United States," Eveline Widner-Schlumpf, a ministry official said at a press conference in Bern. "The Franco-Polish film-maker will not be extradited to the United States, and the measures of restriction on his liberty have been lifted."
She said national interests had been considered before the decision was made, adding: "Polanski is now a free man." Polanski was arrested on a US warrant last year while in Zurich to collect a lifetime achievement award for his film work. He was kept under house arrest at his Swiss chalet in the mountain resort of Gstaad.
He will now be able to move beyond his garden for the first time. An electronic tag has been removed from his ankle.
The Swiss decision is likely to cause diplomatic tensions between Switzerland and the US.
Widner-Schlumpf added: "The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a fault in the US extraditionary request."
Polanski was arrested in September as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival. At the time, Swiss authorities seemed likely to extradite him to the US.
Widmer-Schlumpf said the decision against doing so was not meant to excuse Polanski's crime, adding that it was "not about deciding whether he is guilty or not guilty".
Polanski, the Oscar-winning director of films including Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist, was accused of plying his victim with champagne and the drug Quaalude during a 1977 modelling shoot before raping her. He was initially charged on six counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.
What happened after that is a subject of dispute. The defence says the now deceased judge, Laurence Rittenband, had agreed in meetings with attorneys to sentence Polanski to a 90-day diagnostic study and nothing more. The judge later changed his mind and summoned Polanski for further sentencing, at which time the director fled to his native France, his lawyers say.
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polanski is a piece of shit paedophille that deserves the death penalty or vigilante justice, i don't watch his movies and don't check for anyone that co-signs this piece of shit
doggfather:
:psych: to Switzerland
LONDON!!:
--- Quote from: doggfather on July 14, 2010, 04:17:05 AM --- :psych: to Switzerland
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co-sign this, i know they supposed to be neutral and shit, pacifist and all of that type of shizzle, which is all good and commendable, but this is taking it too far like, get me, there taking the piss like, you get me and you know this, there taking the berties, its disgusting, they must be some proper hippies or sumthin in charge of there court system, or the authentic 'loony left' in charge, no propaganda bizness, the authentic loony left in charge of that country because this shit is sleazy, creepy and revoulting, yes it is, the kid was only 13 years old, stupid poom poom animals, sex offender puppy
white Boy:
just cause i abject to someone's way of life or the things they have done, dont mean i cant respect and enjoy their art...
id see a point in it if i am supporting them financially, but i download it all illegally anyway.
LONDON!!:
--- Quote from: white Boy on July 14, 2010, 10:51:41 AM ---just cause i abject to someone's way of life or the things they have done, dont mean i cant respect and enjoy their art...
id see a point in it if i am supporting them financially, but i download it all illegally anyway.
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its a free world, your free to do what you want to do, you see what i'm saying, your not supporting this piece of pussy financially, so its nuthin, you see what i'm saying, you ain't making this peadophille rich, but i'd bet if you have had any experience wit sex offender pussy's then you wouldn't want to even support downloading this piece of shits movies illegally or on pirates(bootleg's) neither, trust me on that, but like i said before, its a free world, you ain't making this paedophille rich or helping him financially, so its nuthin
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