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Polanski will not be extradited to the US
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The Swiss authorities have decided not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the United States to face prosecution in a 1977 sex case.
The 76-year old Oscar-winning director, who was arrested last September in Zurich and had been under house arrest in Switzerland, is a free man, according to Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf.
The US has expressed its disappointment over the move.
Widmer-Schlumpf said the decision had been taken following Washington’s refusal to give access to confidential documents.
“In these circumstances it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty that Roman Polanski had already served the sentence to which he was condemned at the time," Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference in the capital, Bern, on Monday.
She added that Switzerland had also decided against extradition because Polanski had been coming to the country in good faith for years.
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