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POLISH presidential adviser Tomasz Nalecz accused US authorities of “absolute ignorance” today for seeking the arrest of director Roman Polanski while he was in Poland.
The US had wanted the filmmaker’s arrest while he visited for the opening of a Jewish history museum on grounds of having sex with a child in California in 1977.
Mr Nalecz maintained that it was inappropriate to seek the arrest of a “child of the Holocaust” in Poland during the opening of the museum.
“From the point of view of Polish history,” the US official who requested the arrest “showed absolute ignorance,” he said.
And Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said: “I think that Polish citizens, especially in cases of crimes whose statute of limitations have run out, should not be subject to extradition.”
Mr Polanski, who lost his mother at the Auschwitz death camp, plans to direct a new film in Poland next year on France’s infamous anti-Semitic imprisonment of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1895.
