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Originally Posted by Quzor

Again, we are in complete agreement here. And, obviously, we could argue ad nauseam about what a fair punishment would be, but it is up to the judge to interpret the law and derive punishment from his interpretation. I simply hope that he will recognize where some benefit for others can come out of this situation, aside from just punishing the accused.

If the case of rape is dismissed thanks to the documentary's infos, we can only wonder if they will sentence him because he fled. To be honest, I don't understand why he still refuses to be extradited.


Now for the tabloids:

"Switzerland let a guest walk into a nasty trap. We should be ashamed," said tabloid newspaper Blick.

Daily paper Le Temps said Switzerland had "shocked film buffs and friends of the arts with its kindly and efficient co-operation with US justice. It has angered Poland and France".

To caugh someone who has broken the law is actually a "nasty" trap

And I like the "It has angered Poland and France" Beside Mitterrand and his friends, nearly no one here is angered at what the Swiss Police did. And given the result of the national Polish survey that I posted ealier, not a lot of people in Poland are angered either.


And another news with the best source ever:

The Los Angeles Times on Monday said Polanski's lawyers may have sparked the arrest by claiming that prosecutors had never sought to extradite him in 30 years. It cited two unidentified sources as saying that court motions filed in July had suggested prosecutors were not serious about capturing him.

And finally, an article about France:

Roman Polanski, a sexual predator? Not in the eyes of the French media, which tend to describe him as the victim of a money-grabbing American mother and a publicity-hungry Californian judge.

The woman in question was Susan Gailey, whose daughter, Samantha, was at the centre of the case that led to Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland.

The French view is that Mrs Gailey pushed the 13-year-old — now known as Samantha Geimer — into Polanski’s arms in the hope of a movie career.

For the generation of French commentators who grew up the 1960s, Polanski was guilty only of pushing back the boundaries of sexual liberation.

The other figure in a tale that highlights the Franco-American gulf is Laurence J. Rittenband, the judge in charge of the case, who died in 1993. He is accused in France of reneging on his word over a plea bargain, making a series of procedural errors and using Polanski’s name to earn himself celebrity.

For France, there has never been any question of extraditing Polanski to the United States because he holds a French passport. Nor has his reputation been tarnished in Paris by the events of 1977. Instead, he is seen as a hero unjustly persecuted by America’s prosecutors and media.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6851562.ece

Even if it is true about our medias in France (sadly), and even if they put "french media" in the first lines of the article", articles like this one tend to give a rather bad view of the "French people" who are actually ok with the Californian Justice decision in majority.