- Roman Polanski
The authorities finally decided to move the director Roman Polanski from a prison in the Zurich area into an undisclosed location. The news mentions, the director stumbled against child sexual abuse cases under the age of the 1977’s, moved to a house in the Alps, Switzerland.
The transfer was conducted by the authorities on Thursday (3 / 12). “The transfer was based on security issues and protection of person,” said Folco Galli, a spokesman for the justice ministry.
However, when asked the location of the arrest 76-year-old director was, now, Galli declined to answer. Told AP news agency, Galli said that until Friday afternoon Polanski still going to be in a villa in Gstaad mountainous area with security surveillance.
“In principle it would not change anything,” said Galli. “He still will be moved tomorrow (Friday).”
It ensures that the director has ever won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival event it will not run away. He was in tight control. In fact, Polanski was wearing an electric monitoring bracelet so that movement continues observed.
Since 26 September, the director of films like “Rosemary’s Baby”,
“Chinatown” and “The Pianist” was arrested by the authorities in Switzerland, for a moment he arrived in Zurich to accept a lifetime achievement award in a film festival. The authorities in Los Angeles wanted extradited to account for what he did 31 years ago.
Polanski fled the United States on February 1, 1978, on the day where he dropped the penalty. He later settled in France, to avoid extradition.