AT A GLANCE
- In a statement released with today’s announcement, the Justice Ministry said it had denied the request because it is “not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a fault in the U.S. extradition request.” In particular, U.S. authorities refused to provide details of the case records requested by Switzerland.
- Polanski was taken into custody on September 26 last year when he arrived in Zurich where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award at the film festival there. He was arrested on outstanding warrant in the U.S., where he has been avoiding sentencing on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
- Until today, he had been under house arrest at his chalet in Gstaad since December 4, out on 4.5 million franc bail.
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