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Poland quizzes Polanski over US extradition plea

2014-10-30 35 Dailymotion

Film-maker Roman Polanski has been questioned by Polish prosecutors in connection with a US extradition request over a 1977 sex crime conviction.<br /><br />Polanski presented himself to authorities in the southern Polish city of Krakow but prosecution officials decided not to detain him.<br /><br />The film-maker pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a champagne and drug fuelled photoshoot in Los Angeles.<br /><br />At the time he spent 42 days in jail as part of a 90-day plea bargain. But he fled the country the following year, believing the judge hearing the case could overrule the deal and jail him for years.<br /><br />In 2009, Polanski was arrested in the Swiss city of Zurich on a US warrant and placed under house arrest, but Swiss authorities also decided not to extradite him to the United States.

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