I was recently shocked to hear about Roman Polanski, the famous film director, in the news. He is now detained in Zurich where he traveled to receive a lifetime achievement award. The whole story happened more than thirty years ago. Polanski has committed one of the most shocking crimes, he rapped Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at that time. This occurred in Los Angeles in Jack Nicholson’s house. But what is more alarming is that this man is not in jail, he hasn’t paid for the harms he caused to that innocent girl. Actually what happened is that Polanski moved to France before an arrest warrant was issued. And unfortunately, there Polanski was protected by a law preventing the US from arresting him.
In this whole story, the shocking details are about the support Polanski received. This support goes from famous French actors to even American directors and actors like Woody Allen, Martin Scorses, and others. In 1977, everybody was talking about him since he was involved in a child sex affair. I wanted to write about that story because over the years, Polanski has still been able to live a normal life doing as if nothing has been done. Indeed, movies from him have been released. One of his movies is The Pianist, for which he received an Oscar, but his price has been collected by Harrison Ford. Polanski knew that he couldn’t come back in California because he would be immediately arrested. This person, who is a rapper, had been able to win an Oscar. Even if Polanski is a genius, that doesn’t make him free from what had been committed. And unfortunately here we can see differences because if someone non-famous commits such a crime, there is no solution for him other than jail. And in this case because of his worldwide reputation, Polanski is protected. How fair is that?
However, recent news indicates that Polanski will be forced to come back to California to be judged in the court of Los Angele. More than thirty years after the unlawful act, Polanski will be finally judged. But still, in this type of crimes, justice shouldn’t have taken so long to arrest or judge the rapper…
