Roman Polanski says he will cooperate with Poland after U.S. sends extradition request

Filmmaker Roman Polanski said on Monday that he will cooperate with Poland, which received a request from the U.S. to have him extradited.

“I know that the extradition request has come and of course I will undergo the procedure and we will see,” Polanski told Polish news station TVN24, reports The New York Times. “I trust Poland’s judiciary system.”

Last week, Polish prosecutors said that they had received an extradition request from their counterparts in Los Angeles. Polanski is still considered a fugitive from justice after he was convicted of statutory rape in 1978. Although did did serve time under psychological testing, he fled the country, believing that he would get a longer jail sentence.

Since then, Polanski has worked nearly exclusively in Europe. He is currently in Krakow, where he is making a new film about the Dreyfus Affair.

The Rosemary’s Baby director currently lives in France. He was under house arrest in Switzerland, but the country eventually decided to reject a U.S. warrant for extradition in 2010.

In October, Poland decided not to arrest Polanski after he visited a Jewish history museum in Warsaw.

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