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Roman Polanski's request to be released from prison after being detained on sex abuse charges was denied by the Swiss authorities today.
The Oscar-winning director, 76, arrested by police in Zurich on a 1978 warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, sought bail pending his possible extradition to America. Polanski has lived in France since fleeing the US in 1978, a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with teenager Samantha Geimer.
He now faces weeks in a prison cell while France and Poland fight his extradition.
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Just some Californian DA trying to make a name for himself, and backed by Hillary Clinton no doubt. Are we surprised that there was a crackdown not long after the feminist priestess was made Secretary of State?
Funny how the mother, who put her daughter in the way of known moral danger, got off scot-free
- David Short, Tunis, Tunisia, 06/10/2009 18:15
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Well, it COULD be said that he's a known flight risk....
- Rogan, Irving, 06/10/2009 15:54
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