INTERPOL Alerts Member Nations to Roman Polanski's Continued Fugitive Status

INTERPOL's Red Notice remains valid - borders to be watched

LYON, France, November 26 - Following the decision by a Swiss federal court to release Roman Polanski
on bail, INTERPOL has issued an alert reminding all 188 member countries that
he remains the subject of a valid Red Notice, an international wanted persons
notice, issued at the request of US authorities.

The message, sent by INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon,
France, also requests each of its National Central Bureaus (NCBs) to ensure
that border control agencies are advised of Polanski's Red Notice status,
which is a request for all countries to identify or locate an individual with
a view to their arrest and extradition.

"Given Mr. Polanski's history of international travel while defying a
judicial order, a US$4.5 million bail and an electronic bracelet does not
mean that law enforcement should let its global guard down," said INTERPOL
Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.

"Mr. Polanski has given us more than 30 years of proof that he does not
feel bound to respect any court decision with which he does not agree."

In March 1977, a Los Angeles County Grand Jury returned an indictment
against Polanski, charging him with furnishing a controlled substance to a
minor, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under fourteen, unlawful sexual
intercourse, rape by use of drugs, perversion and sodomy on a person.

Polanski fled from the US in 1978, after he had pleaded guilty to a
charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, and has eluded
arrest since that time until his recent arrest in Switzerland.

"The world law enforcement community should do all in its power to make
sure that the Swiss judicial process is allowed to run its course, and if Mr.
Polanski defies the conditions of his release, no country should welcome,
offer safe haven to, or defend his conduct," Secretary General Noble
concluded.

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