Roman Polanski Extradition Bid Rejected by Top Polish Court

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London — A bid by the U.S. to extradite Roman Polanski has been rejected by Poland’s Supreme Court.

The decision brings to an end efforts by the U.S. government to force Polanski to face justice for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl at a photo shoot in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Polanski, who holds both Polish and French citizenship, is now free to live and work in Poland.

In May, Poland’s Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, had appealed to Poland’s Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling that the director should not be sent to the U.S.

“We are very happy that the case is finally over,” one of Polanski’s lawyers, Jan Olszewski, told Reuters. “We hope that this ruling becomes a stimulus for the American side to perhaps use existing legal opportunities to issue a ruling in absentia and consider the penalty served. »

- Leo Barraclough

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