Polanski In Court Over US Extradition Request

Film director Roman Polanski has testified at a court in Poland over a US request for his extradition for a child sex crime conviction.

Polanski, wearing a dark suit, arrived for the hearing in Krakow with his two lawyers.

The media were barred from the court.

Polanski's lawyers have submitted additional documents

Presiding judge Dariusz Mazur said a ruling would not be made at the hearing as the court still had to consider additional documents submitted by Polanski's lawyers.

The judge said the papers related to unsuccessful extradition proceedings against Polanski in Switzerland in 2010.

Another court hearing is reported to have been scheduled for April.

Under Polish law, if the court rules in favour of the extradition request, it will be passed on to the country's justice minister who will make the final decision on whether to allow Polanski to be taken to the US.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker 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 has been 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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