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by secondaryacct 1596 days ago
We disagree it was heinous and believe it's prescribed, thank you. Polanski is a French citizen and will not be given to the US, but if an american is demanded, we ll give him back on the double.

It s what they seem not to explain in movies: we protect our brothers in citizenship against exaggerated foreign conviction, but not foreigners.
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throwjs51009 1596 days ago
Wow, justification for rape right here. He was 43 when it happened.

https://idlewords.com/2010/05/an_annotated_letter_from_roman...

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https://web.archive.org/web/20100130223615/http://www.thesmo...

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secondaryacct 1594 days ago
No justification for rape, we do not believe the americans are rational and contextualized his crime, and are only perceiving Polanski with an emotional lense, decades after the fact.

I dont care myself, just telling you why we ll never give him as a country. We simply feel different emotions (here doubt in France vs horror in the US). No need to ad hominem me in isolation as if I supported rape. I just know the media portray him as a victim of a 120 years-sentence justice system.

If he raped someone yday, like our ex-future-president DSK did in NYC, by all means, keep him, and we d give him back if he fled. But that also turned out a puritain whitch hunt in the end so it's hard to trust americans with our citizens.

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erehweb 1596 days ago
What do you mean by "prescribed" here?
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teddyh 1595 days ago
He means that the statute of limitations (a.k.a. prescriptive period) has run out.
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