Swiss authorities will keep Polanski one more weekend in jail

After not paying $4.5 million, Roman Polanski will stay in jail till after the weekend, declared Swiss authorities
Friday.

Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said that Roman Polanski has yet to fulfill all the requirements to ensure
that he stays in his chalet in the Swiss luxury resort of Gstaad, before he gets placed under house arrest in
Switzerland: “He will not be transferred to Gstaad today or during the weekend”. Also the film-maker didn’t pay the bond of $4.5 million which counts among bail conditions set by the court.

Roman Polanski

The last two months Polanski lived in a cell with a table, a bed, a wall cupboard, a washbasin, a toilet and a
television. Also he has been given tracksuits to wear and five francs a day in pocket money.

Tom Polanski has never returned to the United States since fleeing three decades ago so he was not able to
present himself at the Oscar award for his movie “The Pianist” in 2003.

The film-maker was accused of raping the girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a
modeling shoot in 1977. Initially he indicted six felony counts, two of them are rape by use of drugs, child
molesting and sodomy, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.

As a response at the decision of Swiss justice ministry, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said: “Mr Polanski has given us more than 30 years of proof that he does not feel bound to respect any court decision with which he does not agree.Given Mr Polanski’s history of international travel while defying a judicial order, a 4.5 million dollar bail and an electronic bracelet does not mean that law enforcement lets its global guard down. If Mr Polanski defies the conditions of his release, no country should welcome, offer safe haven to, or defend his conduct”.