Because most people don’t really care, and this all took place over 30 years ago I simply find it interesting that they finally were able to arrest filmmaker Roman Polanski for charges set against him in 1977 that he fled to France to avoid.
Now, today, it appears that authorities have taken steps to resolve the case once and for all. After arriving in Zurich, Switzerland to attend the Zurich Film Festival, he was arrested. Festival organizers had planned to present Polanski with a lifetime achievement award, but now he is being detained with the possibility of extradition to the United States.
I do believe in innocent until proven guilty, but the fact that Polanski has dodged this legal issue by simply staying outside of the United States is suspicious at very least.
Polanski has not offered anything to my DVD collection, so he will hardly be missed while he serves his 83 minutes in jail. However he isn’t exactly as “influential” as some of those short lived criminal jail stays. I just hope that justice is met, and the punishment fits the crime.
