How to be a successful rapist: Be a Hollywood celebrity and move to Switzerland!

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So, yes, the US Government should do more.... much more.... then just accept this slap in the face.

Jul 12, 2010 - 14:03
Polanski will not be extradited to the US

Filmmaker Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States, the Swiss Justice Ministry has decided.

"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," it said in a statement on Monday.

The announcement follows months of uncertainty over whether Polanski would have to return to the US to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

"Considering all the aspects of this case – and in particular the extradition request which is not satisfying as far as the presentation of the facts of the case is concerned and the principles of state action deriving from international public order – the extradition request has to be rejected," the statement concluded.

According to Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, the US has accepted the decision. The US does not have the possibility to appeal.

At a press conference in Bern on Monday, Widmer-Schlumpf emphasised the fact that Switzerland had acted without pressure from other countries.



Swiss arrest
In September 2009, Polanski was detained in Zurich under a 1978 US warrant.

Polanski was on his way to the Zurich Film Festival, where he had been scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award.

The film director, who has a home in Gstaad, had been on a US wanted list since 2005; the festival made it easy for the Swiss Justice Ministry to predict his arrival in Switzerland.

Polanski, 76, has been under house arrest in his Gstaad chalet since December 2009. He is now free to leave.

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H/T to Drudge.

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