“It was exhausting and painful in a way, because I had to go back to remember something that they prefer to be forgotten,” said the filmmaker briefly
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Roman Polanski appeared today behind closed doors for about nine hours before a court of Cracow (southern Poland) by the request for extradition by the United States for a crime of sexual abuse , an event that has made him remember things he preferred “keep forgetting.”
“It was exhausting and painful in a way, because I had to go back to remember something that they prefer to be forgotten,” said Polanski briefly to reporters as he left the courthouse after appear under the extradition request from the United States for the crime of sexual abuse against a child under 13 years committed in California in 1977.
The magistrates did not take a decision today on delivery or not Roman Polanski to the US authorities, and hopes that the process will still take several weeks.
“It is necessary to study the evidence presented by Roman Polanski, which excludes the rapid resolution of the case,” said court spokeswoman, Barbara Górszczyk.
In fact the television TVN24 reported that “the next view to take place on next April. “
Director reiterated his” confidence “in the Polish Justice and told the media that he expects the process of open extradition does not prevent the shooting of the film Poland aims to shoot from next July, a film inspired by the spy scandal Alfred Dreyfus.
For nearly nine hours director testified in court, behind closed doors, as days ago claimed his defense and to safeguard your privacy from the media interest.
“The defense will try to prove that the extradition request is simply unfounded,” he told reporters Polanski’s lawyer, Jan Olszewski, off the court.
At the hearing today, the prosecution presented the reasons why it has begun processing the extradition request, while defending the director requested the Polish court to take into account the decision by the Swiss authorities in 2010 when they refused delivery to United States.
If the judges fail in this case for extradition, Justice Minister Grabarczyk Czesary must ultimately decide whether or not the process gives green light. If instead the court denies the request, the decision will be final and conclusive.
The extradition request was filed last January after being admitted by the prosecution of Krakow, referred the competent court in the same town.
In recent months Polanski has spent time in his native Krakow, where he is preparing to shoot a film about Dreyffus case, which should begin this summer, and has rented the apartment where he lived as a child.
The presence of the filmmaker in Poland was used by the United States to request his extradition.
But attempts that Polanski be extradited to US tear much earlier and in 2009 experienced one of his most famous chapters when US authorities requested Switzerland arrest filmmaker, who has French and Polish citizenship.
The filmmaker was arrested at the airport in Zurich spent three months in prison and seven under house arrest, until finally, Switzerland refused to extradite him and released him.
In that period of detention, Warsaw devoted to Polanski a star on the “Walk of fame “of the Polish capital with one of its most popular phrases:”. Nothing is too shocking to me “
A year later the United States returned to the charge and claimed extradition, in that case in Poland, but first the Attorney General Polish concluded that the offense for which it is claimed had already prescribed under Polish law.
Later, in October 2014, the Polish Justice dismissed the request of US detention for the filmmaker, who was attending at the time of the opening of the Museum of Jewish History in Warsaw.
Now, after a new US request last January, the Krakow prosecutors decided to apply the extradition treaty between the United States and Poland “unconditionally” and accepted process the application, but without considering relevant at any time filmmaker’s arrest.
Polanski, 81 years and won an Oscar as best director for the film “The Pianist” (“The Pianist”, 2002), is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, crime who pleaded guilty in 1977 and for which he spent 42 days in a California prison, after which he was released on bail.
In 1978 fled the United States before the hearing to fix it, for fear that the judge impose him a severe sentence.
Although the filmmaker came years an economic agreement with Geimer, who dropped all charges last December 24 a court in Los Angeles rejected a defense request to permanently close the case, which keeps him from touching United States.
It was precisely the fear of arrest which made it impossible to pick Polanski himself the Oscar awarded the Academy and received on behalf of the actor Harrison Ford , who directed the movie “Frantic” (“Frantic”, 1988).
The author of such films as “Rosemary’s Baby” (“Rosemary’s Baby”, 1968) “The Ghost Writer” (“The Ghost Writer”, 2010) or “Chinatown” (1974) usually resides in France with his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner gala, and their children.
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