Swiss rejects US extradition request.
Polanski Gets Away With Child Rape.
I am not surprised by the despicable Swiss action to release the child rapist Roman Polanski, to refuse to send him to the U.S for the sake of justice. The Swiss decision is not only a poke in the eye of the United States, it is a moral failure on the part of the Swiss government. That government has failed to do its part to protect the world's children from child predators.
Mr Polanski has money and friends in the well heeled and in the cultural circles of Europe, who spun a fable of Mr. Polanski's persecution by zealot American prosecutors. Mr. Polanski who has the morals of a mosquito, bites wherever he lands. In 1977 he landed on a 13 year old child. He raped her, after getting her drunk, and feeding her illegal drugs.
The self-serving statement by Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, that the "decision was not meant to excuse Polanski's crime, saying the issue was 'not about deciding whether he is guilty or not guilty, "' is ridiculous. Mr. Polanski plead guilty and was a fugitive fleeing sentencing. The Swiss duty was to send him back, so that he could face the justice that he fled.