Roman Polanski waives goodbye to US criminal charges****Breaking News****
By Blogonaut
Swiss authorities have rejected the pending request to extradite the award winning director Roman Polanski to Los Angeles, California to face sentencing on a 33 year old statutory rape case there involving the alleged sexual intercourse with a minor who has since opposed any further punishment for the director. (See our prior coverage, here--scroll down.)
Swiss authorities had little comment when thy announced that Polanski was released from house arrest and free to return to his native France:
"The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a fault in the US extradition request, although the issue was thoroughly examined. Moreover, also the principles of State action deriving from international public order were taken into account."
Translation: We have had enough of the United States dictating to the Swiss. Earlier this year the Swiss caved under tremendous pressure from the United States Department of State and US Justice Department to violate Swiss law and release the names of 4,000 US suspected tax evaders with numbered accounts in Swiss Bank UBS. In addition, Los Angeles prosecutors refused to unseal and provide to the Swiss certain testimony from former members of the Office of the District Attorney for Los Angeles County calling into question the integrity of the process leading to Polanski's fugitive status.
In our opinion, the Swiss finally said: “enough is enough”.
READ MORE: Roman Polanski's victim wants case to finally end (latimes.com)
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