Polanski to “fight extradition to US”

LONDON - Director Roman Polanski, who has been detained in Switzerland for a case of unlawful sex, seems to be prepared to fight his extradition to the US.

According to the helmer’s lawyer Herve Temime, he is “in fighting mood” and is planning with legal team to seek release “without delay”.

He mentioned that 76-year-old was “shocked and dumbfounded” by his arrest in Zurich as he reached the city to receive lifetime achievement award, the BBC News reports.

Also, the ‘Pianist’ director’s agent, Jeff Berg, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the arrest was “surprising because Roman for the last 12, 15 years has lived in Switzerland, he has a home, he travels there, he works there”.

Polanski had pleaded guilty of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 in America but had escaped from the country. (ANI)