The Oscar-winning director
served 42 days in jail as part of a plea bargain after admitting having sex
with a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot in Los Angeles.
Poland is to appeal against
a court's decision not to extradite film-maker Roman Polanski to the United States
over a 1977 child sex conviction, the country's justice minister said.
The case has continued for
nearly four decades, with some demanding harsh punishment and others saying the
extradition efforts should be dropped.
After serving time in
prison, Polanski fled the following year to Britain and then to France,
believing the judge hearing his case could overrule the deal and put him in
jail for much longer.
Samantha Geimer, the victim
in the case, has made clear she believes Polanski's long exile has been
punishment enough.
The US requested Polanski's
extradition from Poland after he made a high-profile appearance in the capital
Warsaw in 2014.
The Rosemary's Baby
director lives in Paris but also has an apartment in the southern Polish city
of Krakow.
A Polish court rejected the
extradition request in October, and the prosecutor's office at first said it
would not appeal against the ruling.
But since then, Poland's
new staunchly conservative government has merged the posts of justice minister
and prosecutor general, giving it more direct control over prosecutions.
Zbigniew Ziobro, who has
assumed the newly merged post, has been critical of the court's decision not to
extradite Polanski, claiming the director's celebrity status had helped him
escape justice.
Mr Ziobro told state news
agency PAP: "I've decided to file to the supreme court an appeal over the
ruling ... in which the ... court decided not to extradite Mr Polanski to the
US in a situation when he's accused of and wanted for ... a rape of a child.
"If he was just a
regular guy, a teacher, doctor, plumber, decorator, then I'm sure he'd have
been deported from any country to the US a long time ago."
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