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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. Polish prosecutors questioned filmmaker Roman Polanski on Wednesday following a US request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex crime conviction.
Boguslawa Marcinkowska, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors, said Polanski was questioned in Krakow where he is making a film. “In the near future, we are planning to forward the [extradition] request to a court,” she said.
For further information, please contact: Polanski, who was born to Polish parents but lives in France, has said he will cooperate with Polish authorities over the extradition request.
Now 81, he is viewed by many Poles as one of their greatest living cultural figures. Internationally renowned for films such as Chinatown and The Pianist, Polanski is in Poland to make a film about the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal that shook France more than a century ago.
According to Polish law, if the court decides that the US request should proceed further, the justice minister will make the decision on whether to extradite Polanski.
The filmmaker pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a photoshoot in Los Angeles, fuelled by champagne and drugs.
Polanski served 42 days in jail as part of a 90-day plea bargain. He fled the United States the following year, believing the judge hearing his case could overrule the deal and put him in jail for years.
In 2009, Polanski was arrested in the Swiss city of Zurich on the US warrant and placed under house arrest. He was freed in 2010 after Swiss authorities decided not to extradite him to the United States.