– I made a decision that goes to the Supreme Court of cassation ws. Decision on Roman Polanski, in which case the court of Krakow decided to issue Mr. Polanski to the United States in a situation where the accused and hounded by the cruel crime against a child, child rape – he said Tuesday morning in a radio Jedynka Zbigniew Ziobro.
As said Minister of Justice, for the reason that Polanski is a well-known “can not justify and create justifications, that he should be treated differently. – If it was the proverbial Kowalski, teacher, doctor, plumber, painter, I am sure, that each country has long since been deported to the United States – said the prosecutor general. on the other hand – he added – Polanski is defended by “high society and a part of the liberal media.”
The Minister filed a cassation appeal ws. Polanski
– I see no reason to apply here the double tariff. Everyone before the law must be equal, especially as committing crimes against children – he stressed.
Zbigniew Ziobro assessed that being raised by Polanski’s defenders is that it is an outstanding artist. – Does it mean that an outstanding artist can commit rape and other serious violent crimes, and plain Kowalski has to be punished? I believe that the law is equal to all – he stressed. He added that he has various reservations about the American system of justice. – But despite the position Polanski in Hollywood and various media landscape of America, the local justice system works and wants to treat everyone equally before the law, it is a good example to follow in Poland – he said.
Attorneys are not surprised
One of the defenders of Roman Polanski’s attorney. Jan Olszewski said he expected the decision of the minister, since she has already been announced. He noted that the substantive arguments of the court, which refused to extradite his client – in his opinion – not raise doubts about the legal and were comprehensive. He added that the details of the appeal will be able to apply only in the future, having regard to its justification.
Content cassation
The Communication National Prosecutor’s Office indicated that in assessing the Attorney General Krakow court, which refused Polanski, “grossly violated the agreement on extradition signed between the Polish and the US.” – Erroneously assumed that the obstacle to the release of the accused is that the alleged crimes were barred in Poland. There has not been for the limitation of these criminal acts in the United States. Therefore, in accordance with the extradition treaty, the accused should be handed over to the United States – are currently in the message.
As noted, the District Court in Krakow, refusing to extradite Polanski, “a one-sided and selective rated gathered evidence, failed at the clarification of all circumstances of the case.” – Court wrongly assumed that Polanski has suffered the consequences of the possible penalties, spending in 1977. 42 days in jail in the US, and by detention and home in Switzerland, where the accused was arrested in 2009. In connection with a request extradition USA – added .
(Film – “We expected such a move by Zbigniew Ziobro.” Polanski’s lawyer R. of cassation / Source: TVN24 / x-news)
The communication stated that the arrest of the director in Switzerland was a “consequence of his escape abroad before the US justice and avoiding his criminal liability, not a punishment for a crime of which he is accused.”
– The Cracow Regional Court wrongly found also that the US could lead to inhuman and degrading treatment of the accused. With incomprehensible reasons, the court pointed to the alleged bad conditions at US detention centers and insufficient medical care. We should not be considered a rational argument the court that the possible extradition of the accused violates his right to respect for private and family life, because it will be exposed to separation from family – according to the release.
Proposal Americans
Polanski extradition demanded by the United States. In 1977. The director has been recognized by a court in Los Angeles convicted of having sex with a minor Samantha Gailey (now Geimer).
US proposal for the extradition of Polanski went to the Polish in the early 2015 .; in January, the prosecutor’s office sent the court a formal request for a declaration of admissibility of extradition. It stated that the extradition treaty concluded between the Polish and the US that you can spend a Polish citizen to the USA – also in the case of limitation of Poland, while in the US the limitation period has not expired. The prosecution argued that he takes a position that “only in relation to the formal requirements and does not apply to other circumstances.”
October 30 last. The District Court in Kraków issued a decision on the inadmissibility of extradition of Polanski to the United States. He decided that before a court in the United States concluded a settlement with Polanski, a punishment that threatened him, was made with a vengeance. He further stated that extradition would involve the violation of the rights and freedoms of Polanski. He also pointed to “well-founded fear that the case of Roman Polanski will not be resolved in an independent and impartial manner by a court in Los Angeles.”
At the end of November last. Krakow, the district attorney’s office announced that it will submit a complaint to a court order. This decision meant the legitimacy of the decision of the court of first instance. In December 2015, the then Attorney General Andrzej Seremet turned to the Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow with the transfer of the case file of Roman Polanski. He instructed to examine them in terms of appeal against a decision of the District Court in Krakow.
According to the Code of Criminal Procedure Minister of Justice-Attorney General – as well as the Ombudsman – may bring a cassation appeal from any final court decision terminating the proceeding.
arrest in Switzerland
Roman Polanski, who has Polish and French citizenship in 2009. Was arrested at Zurich airport on the basis of an American arrest warrant. After a three-month stay in jail and seven-month house arrest was released. The Swiss authorities have decided that they do not spend it the US, because “it can not be excluded with absolute certainty an error in the application of extradition the United States.”
After the arrest of the director in Switzerland victim Samantha Geimer asked the appeals court in California to discontinued the criminal case against Polanski, but the court rejected both the application for discontinuance of the case, and later request defenders – by default the process.
In the course of the Swiss Polanski extradition proceedings published on the website article, which stated that “the request of the Swiss authorities to extradite is based on falsehood.” He pointed out that 33 years ago was found guilty, but the 42 days he spent in 1977. In a prison in Chino, California, were to be considered a full sentence. – When I left the prison, the judge changed his mind and decided that the time I spent in it, it is not enough for a full judgment, and it justifies my trip to the USA – wrote the director.
Polanski (author of films like “Knife in the Water”, “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown,” “The Pianist”, “Writer spectrum”) now lives in France with his wife, French actress Emmanuelle Seigner, and their children. For fear of arrest, Polanski received in 2003. Oscar Award for his directing “The Pianist.”
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