Posted on 09/30/2009 9:51:31 AM PDT by MaestroLC
PARIS — The French government on Wednesday dropped its public support for Roman Polanski, saying the Oscar-winning director held in Switzerland over a three-decade-old child sex case was not "above the law."
"Roman Polanski is neither above nor beneath the law," said government spokesman Luc Chatel.
"We have a judicial procedure under way, for a serious affair, the rape of a minor, on which the American and Swiss legal systems are doing their job," he told reporters.
He added: "One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest, have caused."
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They must’ve just learned that it WAS rape-rape.
He’s not going to be retried.
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There is still prosection of Nazi war criminals too.
That is retroactive speculation designed to defend Polanski. He was a celebrity and going to get a wrist slap. If you had committed the same crime, you would not have gotten the same consideration. Polanski got a sweetheart deal and still couldn't live with it.
By the way, that documentary was done by a friend of Polanski and was slanted and inaccurate.
No, he's beneath contempt.
He already plead guilty, they aren’t going to re-try him, just punish him. Finally.
Has that idiot, whoopi, retracted her support yet?
What crimes Polanski performed are terrible, no question about it. He should be punished.
What Manson and his gang did (to both the Tate party, the LaBianca’s and others) was on par with Nazi-type terror.
The two don’t compare, at least IMO.
A 13 year old girl is not in a position to give legal consent regarding such a matter, and the law does not consider it as such.
In this case, the act was much more heinous and would have (and should) receive significant more weight in terms of sentencing...but make no mistake, if the 13 year old had consented it still would have been a "real" rape.
God have mercy on any 40 year old man who would have taken one of my daughters at that age, or takes one of my granddaughters...for I surely will not. (And I do not think God in Heaven will either)
Because he was born in France.
Why don’t the French now explain why the did nothing for 30 years.
He pled guilty.
He was born in Poland.
In plea bargain cases murderers and jaywalkers plead guilty to something on the books that has little or nothing to do with the crime committed. Take that as a response to you and an observation of the best judicial system in the world, and not as a defense of your favorite “child rapist”. American judicial system is sicker than any Roman Polanski. Gerald Amirault, again!
Mr. Polanski admitted to giving a 13 year old girl drugs and then forcibly sodomizing her. He ADMITTED to it.
He admitted to it freely and while represented by competent legal counsel.
The big difference between Polanski and the Amirault's is that Mr. Polanski admitted his guilt while the Amiraults steadfastly maintained their innocence for years.
In a rational world Polanski would have already danced his last dance at the end of a rope.
He's an admitted, convicted child rapist. Period
He's also a fugitive from justice. Period.
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No, he was born in Paris to Polish immigrants. They moved back to Poland before the start of WWII. Below is his biographical information from IMDB.com.
Biography forRoman Polanski
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000591/bioDate of Birth: 18 August 1933, Paris, France
Birth Name: Roman Liebling
Nickname: Romek
Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini Biography
Roman Polanski's parents returned to Poland from France just two years before the World War II began: both were taken later to concentration camps where his mother eventually died. Young Roman managed to escape the ghetto and learned to survive wandering through the Polish countryside and living with the different Catholic families. Though local people usually ignored cinemas where mostly German films were shown, Polanski seemed not very much concerned about patriotism and frequently went to the movies. In 1945, he reunited with his father who sent him to technical school, but young Polanski seemed to have already made his choice.
In the 1950s, he took up acting, appearing in Andrzej Wajda's Pokolenie (1955) before studying at the Lodz Film School. His early shorts such as Dwaj ludzie z szafa (1958), Le gros et le maigre (1961), and Ssaki (1962) showed his taste for black humor and interest in bizarre human relationships. His feature debut, Nóz w wodzie (1962), was the first Polish post-war film not associated with the war theme. Though being already a major Polish filmmaker, Polanski yet chose to leave the country and headed to France. Being down-and-out in Paris, he befriended young scriptwriter, Gérard Brach, who eventually became his long-time collaborator. The next two films, Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966), made in England and co-written by Brach, won respectively Silver and Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festivals.
In 1968, Polanski went to Hollywood, where he made the psychological thriller Rosemary's Baby (1968). However, after the brutal murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the infamous Manson gang in 1969, the director decided to return to Europe. In 1974, he again appeared with a US release of Chinatown (1974). It seemed the beginning of the promising Hollywood career, but after his conviction for the statutory rape of a 13-year old girl, Polanski fled from America to avoid prison.
After Tess (1979), which was awarded several Oscars and Cesars, his work became intermittent and rarely approached the level of his better known films. The director also stretched his talents to include occasional work in theatre. He still likes to act in the films of other directors, sometimes with interesting results as it was in Una pura formalità (1994).
IMDb Mini Biography By: Yuri German
I think it was thirty years after he skipped town. Did he put up his own bail in those days?
Well, I guess I don't understand criminal subculture. But my heart is in the right place :)
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