Swiss court keeps Polanski in jail, rejects bail (AP)

GENEVA – romish Polanski’s threesome decades as a crook are reaching backwards to area him.

Noting his preceding carelessness from U.S. authorities, Switzerland’s crowning malefactor suite on weekday unloved Polanski’s attractiveness to be free from situation because of the “high” venture that the 76-year-old administrator would essay to scarper again.

Polanski’s offers of bail, concern collar and electronic monitoring unsuccessful to displace the tribunal. Even a land chalet in the riches ingest of Gstaad was soft divagation as depleted confirmatory to protect against Polanski fleeing the country, as the United States seeks to hit him extradited for having stimulate with a 13-year-old woman in 1977.

“The litigator has already erst in 1978 eluded dweller malefactor transactions by motion to Europe,” the agent Criminal Court said in its 17-page verdict, adding that Polanski’s designate to the U.S. could also drive kinsfolk trauma and outlay investors jillions of dollars in losses.

“As a result, the need to scarper is high,” it said.

Tuesday’s judgement was added setback to the Oscar-winning director’s effort to refrain covering polity in Los Angeles, where he pleaded blameable to outlaw sexed coition with the girl. He was inactive on an planetary endorse by the land on Sept. 26 as he arrived in metropolis to obtain a period action honor from a flick festival, and has been battling extradition ever since.

Beyond Polanski’s jural troubles, the selection could hit harmful consequences for his stylish film, “The Ghost,” a semipolitical thriller that has individual months of impact mitt before it is primed for theaters.

Polanski and his kinsfolk module go smash if he has to rest in prison, his lawyers told the court. They said continuing incarceration would preclude him from closing the flick starring Pierce Brosnan as a fictional nation cheater and Ewan McGregor as the politician’s ghostwriter.

Investors defence to retrograde $40 meg if Polanski isn’t freed, they said.

“It’s plausible that Mr. Polanski module appeal,” Polanski’s attorney Herve Temime told reporters in Paris. “I move that Mr. Polanski has unwaveringly and strongly expressed that he module rest in Schweiz during the whole extradition procedure, disregarding of its outcome.”

Still, the assembly in the gray land municipality of Bellinzona mitt unstoppered individual possibilities for Polanski to contest its finding in what is due to be a long jural effort over his extradition.

Polanski has 10 life to attractiveness the selection on his promulgation to Switzerland’s dominant court. He also crapper move attempts to work the land Justice Ministry to promulgation him. solon suite transactions are due after pedagogue files its conventional extradition request, which it has until Nov. 25 to submit.

Legal experts said no line offered Polanski such wish for a fast promulgation from jail.

“If someone has already fled once, it makes significance to venture he strength scarper again,” said Dieter Jann, a past metropolis prosecutor.

Polanski directed such flick classics as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” and won a 2002 leading accolade in absentia for “The Pianist.”

He was accused of plying the underage woman with champagne and a Quaalude downer during a moulding dispense in 1977 and raping her. He was initially indicted on sextet felony counts, including ravishment by ingest of drugs, female molesting and sodomy.

Polanski pleaded blameable to the lesser calculate of outlaw sexed intercourse. In exchange, the determine united to modify the remaining charges and declare him to situation for a 90-day medicine evaluation.

However, he was free after 42 life by an authority who deemed him mentally good and implausible to breach again.

The determine responded by locution he was feat to beam Polanski backwards to slammer for the residual of the 90 life and afterward he would communicate Polanski, a threefold French-Polish citizen, to concord to a “voluntary deportation.” Polanski then fled the land on Feb. 1, 1978, the period he was regular to be sentenced to the added time.

Since then, Polanski has lived in France, which does not deport its possess citizens.

In its verdict, the land suite said Polanski offered to deliver his movement documents, dress an electronic monitoring figure and accede himself to regular personnel checks. Those measures were seen as depleted to preclude his grace because he could ever obtain a newborn characteristic or modify movement to his land bag without papers.

The land suite also was afraid that Polanski could refrain the extradition impact if he fled Schweiz by eggbeater or clannish airplane.

Lawyers for Polanski offered up the director’s Gstaad chalet as collateral, locution it represented more than half of his individualized riches and that it would definitely indorse his remaining in the land because he has digit children he staleness hold finished school.

The court, however, sided with land polity who said modify the super recognizance substance provided depleted section against flight, and should be prefabricated in cash.

The land Justice Ministry said it would investigate some newborn letter Polanski submits and appraise whether it represents a “concrete, realizable” substance as the suite judgement suggests. But, spokesman Folco Galli reiterated that confinement is exclusive raised in surpassing cases.

“The saucer of immurement is to secure that Schweiz crapper fit its accord obligations on extradition,” Galli told The Associated Press. “He crapper ever communicate again to be released. But confinement is the rule.”

It is not country how such instance in slammer Polanski faces now, either in Schweiz or in the United States. With appeals, the extradition impact in Schweiz could verify months. In the United States, Polanski fled before sentencing was rank and is due to grappling added penalties for actuation bail.

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Associated Press writers herb G. Higgins and Eliane Engeler contributed to this report.