I guess I’ve mistaken him for someone else.
Was it that paedophile director who could not be extradited to the US from Europe, without a waiver of the death penalty against him?
Unfortunately, Polanski didn’t commit a recognizable death penalty infraction. At least not in the eyes of US law.
Polanski fled to France because he was a French citizen and France does not extradite any of it’s citizens for anything.
He was caught in Switzerland.