Filmmaker, under house arrest, breaks long silence over US extradition case
Filmmaker, under house arrest, breaks long silence over US extradition caseFilmmaker Roman Polanski, breaking a months-long silence, said yesterday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media."
Polanski, who is under house arrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet, laid out his case against extradition on an online magazine run by one of his staunchest supporters, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
"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," he wrote. "I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else."
Polanski suggests the case against him is unjust and riddled with problems. Each argument begins with the phrase, "I can remain silent no longer."
Swiss authorities are trying to decide whether to extradite Polanski to US for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski was arrested seven months ago.
