The United States had Poland to Polanski’s extradition is asked when he is in 2014 in Warsaw appeared. The filmmaker lives in Paris, but he also has an apartment in Krakow, in southern Poland.
A Polish court rejected in november 2015, the request and the public prosecutor’s office said at first that it was against the decision not to appeal would go. In may 2016, it was decided that there was an appeal filed.
Polanski has in the past admitted in 1977 to have sex with a then 13-year-old girl. The director was suspected of rape, but has always said that the sex was voluntary.
Polanski’s lawyer Olszewski stressed in may that the court in Krakow has ruled on the admissibility of an extradition to the US, not on the accusation itself. Also, the court doubts whether Polanski a fair trial in Los Angeles.
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