Polanski certainly in France, Poland, Switzerland

GENEVA - Roman Polanski can again be seen on the red carpet in Cannes - but he will not stop at the Venice Film Festival and an Oscar anytime soon. Freed of the stay in Switzerland after the government refused to extradite to the United States each year, the Director-76 is still an Interpol arrest warrant in force for 188 countries for child sex case in 1977. This means that now more than ever, Polanski is really immune from arrest in his native France and Poland, and - because of the astonishing decision this week - Switzerland. "It is in a position, she was a year ago," said Georges Kiejman, France-based lawyer for Polanski. "He is free in Switzerland, France, travel to Poland, and in all countries which have no extradition treaty with the United States." But the public about their case and the mandate that arises is the director of the restriction of some future trips. Most of the Europe Agreements signed with Washington to send people searched in both directions, but Polanski traveled freely in many European countries since the flight of the laws of the United States in 1978. He directed his last film "The Ghost Writer" last year, visiting Germany and Austria, were arrested shortly before the Swiss in September. Polanski's whereabouts still unclear, Tuesday, a day after the Swiss government decided unexpectedly, an extradition request from the United States for the director refused, sentenced for sex with a girl under 13 years in prison Samantha Geimer. Los Angeles, said prosecutors and law in Washington, they will continue to pursue Polanski. Kiejman told The Associated Press that his client was "happy with his freedom." Give him a few days to breathe, "said Kiejman, the U.S. demand to abandon their international arrest warrant. Geimer, who have long identified himself as the victim of Polanski tells the Los Angeles Times published an article in Tuesday that the case was there niedergela need to 33 years old when it happened. "Enough is enough," she said to follow the continuing effort to Polanski. It was forbidden to talk about his lawsuit settlement with the director, but says he has no influence on their views. "I felt this way since the beginning," she said. Since the flight from Los Angeles on the eve of the eve of his first February 1978, the punishment, the Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" has, especially in France, lived does not extradite its own citizens. And he has a long time in Switzerland, making it a house in 2006. Polanski, may buy spent that survived the Holocaust and lost his mother in Auschwitz, the Polish citizenship and can travel safely in the land where he spent most of his childhood. But after that it is not so clear. Italy has a long history in close cooperation with U.S. authorities, and probably accompanied by a U.S. request to stop Polanski. Problems of the Italian-American who delivered mainly on crimes that could lead to focusing the death penalty, which is not relevant in the case of Polanski. But that still means an appearance at the Venice Film Festival is probably impossible. Britain has an extradition treaty with the United States and the Home Office said that there were indeed on a U.S. arrest warrant Polanski, and he was in the country, they respond. In 2005 Polanski successfully sued Vanity Fair for libel in a London court, but could not testify from Paris via video. Germany has a treaty with the United States, too, but announced Tuesday it would not extradite Polanski. Justice Department spokesman Ulrich Staudigl said the AP that Polanski not on a wanted list of the German and can continue to travel the country. Officials in Austria also showed leniency, he was free to come and go without a request Express Arti estation. This was the case in Switzerland, where Polan ski years left for his flight from Justice of the United States should be elected in September as he arrived in Zurich to accept an award at a festival. Now, his safety was guaranteed by the law of the Swiss Government. "The decision was taken and the case is settled," said the Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman Guido Balmer of the AP. "It's just the situation differently if it were a new crime." Balmer said that Polanski could even limited compensation for two months in prison and seven months, he was his luxurious villa in the Swiss Alps. Polanski was the navigation of his victim with champagne and a Quaalude free part of 1977 during a shootout modeling and raped her. He was originally charged with six points, including rape by use of drugs, pedophilia and homosexuality, but he asked guilty of one count of unlawful sexual intercourse. In return, a judge in Los Angeles decided to drop the remaining charges and sentenced to prison for a psychiatric evaluation of 90 days. He was released after 42 days by an examiner who found him healthy and likely to repeat itself, but the judge and Polanski fled Iran from threatening the United States. The Swiss government announced its decision to refuse extradition, in part was based on the authorities to hand over U.S. failure transcripts of testimony secret of the lawyer who handled the case, the director originally indicated. The evidence "must prove" that Polanski has already served his sentence in court ordered a review of the diagnosis, said the Swiss Justice Ministry. Leaders of justice in Los Angeles and Washington condemned the decision and promised to continue to prohibit U.S. Polanski. THE Polanski's prosecutors have said in person there and back, he wanted to argue that his case was mishandled. There was little fear of the Swiss decision could the American cooperation Switzerland damage. Bilateral relations deteriorated after a tax scandal, many Americans money hidden in the largest Swiss bank, UBS AG, but improved with the approval in Switzerland for a settlement of the dispute and the adoption of three prisoners in the resettlement of the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay . But in a country known is known for its low tax rate, it offers the super-rich, many have felt that the case of Polanski shows how to enjoy the rich and famous in Switzerland special privileges. "If the main character in this drama was not Roman Polanski, but an unknown amateur actors, it is now before a U.S. court," the newspaper Neue Luzerner Zeitung said in an editorial. The main problem seems to be, like the Swiss government has extended her work on the formalities of the American extradition request to examine allegations of wrongdoing by the authorities in Los Angeles. "It was an admission that, if higher interests are at stake, not all are equal before the law," wrote the Neue Zürcher Zeitung highly respected. "Some are a little more equality." Another Zürcher Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger, called the Swiss decision "poor". "It is with the tradition of examining only the validity of requests for extradition breaks," he said. "Maybe the new practice in the future prisoners, less than a reception hall that the famous director of the World." Polanski have plans for the future were not clear, however, said people close to the filmmaker that he is looking for a movie version of the Broadway show "The God of Carnage." And it may seem, this weekend at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where his wife, French singer Emmanuelle Seigner will run Saturday. ___ Associated Press writer Frank Jordans contributed in Geneva, Angela Charlton in Paris, Berlin, Verena Schmitt, Veronika Oleksyn in Vienna, Jill Lawless in London and Victor L. Simpson in Rome to this report.