The Swiss authorities rejected the U.S. request to extradite the director

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The Swiss authorities rejected the U.S. request to extradite the director, Roman Polanski and repealed the measures which restrict their freedom, as the use of electronic bracelet and house arrest in the village of Gstaad. The Swiss Justice Minister and the Police stated that the decision is not subject to appeal. The filmmaker is free provided they do not step on U.S. territory, from which he fled in the 70s.
The director, producer and screenwriter, 76, "will not be extradited to the United States and the measures to restrict their freedom to be lifted," said the minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, in Bern, before the journalists.
For the decision were considered the "lingering doubts concerning the presentation of the facts of the case," he added. The minister cautioned that there is no question "whether Polanski is guilty or innocent."
Widmer-Schlumpf pointed to the refusal of U.S. officials to convey the verbal process of a hearing at Los Angeles prosecutor Roger Gunson. The aim of the action would, according to Swiss authorities, "whether the 42 days that Roman Polanski went on the psychiatric ward of a prison in California covering the full prison sentence that (the director) should follow."
"We can not exclude with certainty desired, that Roman Polanski has already served the penalty imposed earlier and that the extradition request is suffering from an addiction (legal) serious", argue the Swiss.



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