The minister said that he will challenge before “the court decision Krakow not to extradite US Polanski, accused of a brutal crime against a minor, the rape of a minor” the Supreme Court said on public radio.
the appeal was introduced last week to the supreme Court (which replaces in Poland the Court of cassation) week and it should make a final decision at a public hearing in the August, told AFP a spokesman, Krzysztof Michalowski.
“from here to that date, the decision of the Court of appeals Krakow still in force and Roman Polanski may it be in Poland “without risk of arrest, he said. The date of the hearing will be announced in the month of June.
“For us it is not a surprise,” he told AFP Jerzy Stachowicz, one of the lawyers of the director of films like “Chinatown” and “the pianist”.
“we had hoped. Mr. Ziobro had said a while he would do. For the moment we can not comment, since no we have already done so or if it will, “added the lawyer.
the court in Krakow rejected last October 30 extraditing Roman Polanski and the prosecution of that city resigned to appeal the decision.
This initiative seems to enroll in the general direction of the conservative government of law and Justice (PiS) who claims to be doing a work of sanitation in the country, taking aim elites liberals.
The Ziobro minister is also attorney general and his powers were recently extended.
Born in France of Polish parents, Polanski, 82 years old, is not currently in Poland, said his lawyer.
The supreme Court can now confirm or annul part or completely this decision, and make it sent to court.
Polanski, who lives in France with his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner, but travels frequently to Poland, never again return to the United States, not even to receive the Oscar for best director 2003 for “the pianist”.
Ziobro said in the first public radio chain that needed no special favors to agree Polanski for his global career. “The law is the same for everyone,” he said.
“If teacher, doctor, plumber, painter, I am sure that any country would have extradited to the United States while” he added.
the director, according to him, is supported “by worldly society and a part of the liberal media”.
” Does that mean an artist can eminent rape or commit other cruel crimes, when the simple Kowalski (common surname in Poland, editor’s note) should be punished heavily? “he said the minister.
According to another lawyer filmmaker, Jan Olszewski, Roman Polanski had no privileges. He agreed that it is not above the law, but that “in the case of proceedings conducted in Poland could not say that Polanski was treated differently from an ordinary citizen”.
“If we had no substantive arguments presented for one year the court, I am convinced that the rank of Roman Polanski would not have protected,” he told public television TVP.
United States introduced in January 2015 to Poland a request for the extradition of Roman Polanski, after a public appearance in Warsaw director of “Dance of Vampires”.
in 1977, in California, Roman Polanski, then 43, was prosecuted for raping Samantha Geimer, who was 13.
after spending 42 days in jail and then his release on bail, the filmmaker, who pleaded guilty to “unlawful sexual acts” with a minor, fled the United States before the announcement of the verdict, fearing a heavy sentence, despite an agreement reached with American justice.
the line of defense of their Polish lawyers was to show that the extradition request was unfounded, considering the agreement.
the defense considers that according to the agreement, accepted by the prosecutor and lawyers for the victim, the expected penalty had been purged by his client, view shared by the court in Krakow.
His decision was similar to that of the Swiss courts, which rejected in 2010 the US extradition request.
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