Film director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities as he tried to enter Switzerland yesterday for that whole statutory rape charges he’s been fleeing from for the past 30 years.
Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977, but fled the US before he could be sentenced and a warrant for his arrest was issued in 1978.
He had been living in France for the last three decades.
The “Chinatown” director was scheduled to attend the Zurich Film Festival, which he was set to recieve a lifetime achievement award – but he was taken into custody at the airport on Saturday.
There has been no timeline set as to when or if he will be extradited back to the United State.
