Posted on 05/02/2010 8:05:03 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Film director Roman Polanski today broke his silence first the time about his Swiss arrest and pending extradition back to Los Angeles. He released this statement to the news media through his Paris friend and author Bernard-Henri Lévy, director of the French magazine La Règle du Jeu:
Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making any public statements and have requested my lawyers to confine their comments to a bare minimum.
I wanted the legal authorities of Switzerland and the United States, as well as my lawyers, to do their work without any polemics on my part. I have decided to break my silence in order to address myself directly to you without any intermediaries and in my own words.
I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life. I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else....
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
He thinks the 42 days he spend in jail are enough? For drugging and anally raping a 13-year-old child, he could have served 20 years.
He still should. He should die behind bars.
When the poor little thing made up that she was having an asthma attack in the hot tub, he gave her a QUAALUDE as medicine. She could have actually been having an asthma attack and he would have killed her.
But of course the Quaalude and the alcohol made it easier for him to rape her three different ways, against her will.
Sick bastard.
Too good for him. Gotta be a better idea.
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