Polanski Extradition Request Sent To Court

Film director Roman Polanski will face a court hearing in Poland over a US request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex crime conviction.

According to Polish law, if the court in Krakow decides that the US request should proceed further, the justice minister will then make the decision on whether to extradite Polanski.

"The further actions in this case will depend on the court," the prosecutors' office said in a statement.

The Oscar-winning film-maker pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer during a photoshoot in Los Angeles fuelled by champagne and drugs.

He served 42 days in jail as part of a 90-day plea bargain.

However, he fled the US the following year, believing the judge hearing his case could overrule the deal and put him in prison for years.

In 2009, Polanski was arrested in the Swiss city of Zurich on the US warrant and placed under house arrest.

He was freed in 2010 after Swiss authorities decided not to extradite him.

Now 81, he is viewed by many Poles as one of their greatest living cultural figures.

Internationally renowned for such films as Chinatown and The Pianist, Polanski is now in the country to make a film about the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal that shook France more than a century ago.

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