Roman Polanski Snatched and Taken Back to the US

The Israelis abducted Mordecai Vananu, a nuclear scientist who revealed their secret nuclear program, somewhere in Europe and took him back to Israel in a crate for trial.

WI, at some point, the US did that to Roman Polanski?
 
The Israelis abducted Mordecai Vananu, a nuclear scientist who revealed their secret nuclear program, somewhere in Europe and took him back to Israel in a crate for trial.

WI, at some point, the US did that to Roman Polanski?
Do you mean the FBI just sending some people to France, having them drag him to the Embassy or onto a plane, and flying him out of the country? I can't see the French government taking kindly to that.

It might depend on how it goes down, too. If anyone other than Polanski gets hurt (some policeman gets beaten up or worse by the extraction team), things probably get worse from whatever they were.

I can't really see this being done. Polanski was 'merely' a common criminal. Bad, to be sure, but not a traitor or intelligence leak. To have the US snatch him out of a foreign country, and risk a diplomatic incident over him, doesn't seem very likely.

Now, maybe some private individual manages to swing it, abducting Polanski and dumping him on the steps of the FBI HQ in Washington, but still, unlikely.
 
I can't really see this being done. Polanski was 'merely' a common criminal. Bad, to be sure, but not a traitor or intelligence leak. To have the US snatch him out of a foreign country, and risk a diplomatic incident over him, doesn't seem very likely.
I have to agree; the US is not going to provoke a massive diplomatic incident over a single pedophile. US-France relations are a bit problematic on a good day; such a blatant violation of French sovereignty is that sort of thing that could poison relations for years.

Then again, if the reaction to his temporary arrest in Switzerland is anything to judge by, Polanski would probably end up getting acquitted or pardoned even if he did end up in a US court. Far too many people (and apparently some governments) seem to think that celebrities ought to be above the law, and the plebs should be grateful that someone famous did them the great honor of raping them.
 
Could Be

Supose a conservative goverenment with a moral streak in it decided Roman Polanski had to be brought to tryal? France has been unpopular since they decided not to support American action in the Middle east. The opetunity to stick it to France would be hard to pass up.
 
Why would anyone care about roman polanski enough to put that much effort in. Even if he was extradited the most he'd spend would be a week in jail and probally a fine. He is too old, his original charge was way to minor "wink, wink". The whole thing is mostly just a joke. It would just be catch and release so there really is no point in putting much effort in. Its been mostly a game of are the Swiss seriously going to do what were saying. To us this has been really a way to look like were doing something to be tough on crime while never really caring if it ever worked.
 

Bearcat

Banned
Polanski is an odious little creep. However, there is no way any government would seriously consider doing this. There are very few benefits and very many repercussions.

Basically, ASB.

Now, snatching Kim Philby out of the USSR and trying him in the United Kingdom, that would have been sweet. But that one is ASB because its too difficult, I would think.
 
Why would anyone care about roman polanski enough to put that much effort in. Even if he was extradited the most he'd spend would be a week in jail and probally a fine. He is too old, his original charge was way to minor "wink, wink". The whole thing is mostly just a joke. It would just be catch and release so there really is no point in putting much effort in. Its been mostly a game of are the Swiss seriously going to do what were saying. To us this has been really a way to look like were doing something to be tough on crime while never really caring if it ever worked.
Violent rape is not generally considered a minor crime.
 

Cook

Banned
What I want to know is did Polanski never attend any movie receptions in any other country?
Did he never enter any country with an extradition treaty with the United States in all that time?
It seems extradinary.
 
Or maybe they can get him on the wya by when they make Taken 2.

Maybe Roman Polanski is the villain. He's heard about the events of the first film and figures a teenage girl who some oil sheikh desired and whose rescue was accomplished by the death of the sheikh, the death of his knife-wielding minion, and the deaths of 30+ Albanian gangsters must be a fine prize.

So he sends minions to kidnap Mills' daughter and Mills, expecting a revenge attack by the brothers, uncles, cousins, sons, etc. of all the Albanians he killed, doesn't see it coming...
 

Valdemar II

Banned
What I want to know is did Polanski never attend any movie receptions in any other country?
Did he never enter any country with an extradition treaty with the United States in all that time?
It seems extradinary.

Most European countries dislike extraditing to USA, it has change somewhat the last ten years, but while Polanski are guilty, the court process was at best questionable and no European country really wish to touch that one with a ten foot pole, and mostly pretend "whom, what, where?".
 
California's refusal to provide Switzerland access to the court records makes it all but impossible that any other European Nation will even consider extraditing him.

As to nabbing Polanski his crime while horrible in a personal sense isn't worth the effort or diplomatic damage having Federal Marshals seize him and dump him on a airplane. He had a max of 40 days left on the base sentence on a 90 day sentence for the crime? There was something horribly wrong in the trial records that no one wants to see the light of day.

No this never happens and the US government never presses again.

Michael
 
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