Polanski Seeks Release From Swiss Jail

The United States has been gluttonous his displacement for accepting sex with a 13-year-old babe in 1977, but the abrupt move by Swiss authorities to arrest Mr. Polanski back he accustomed in Zurich to aggregate a movie-making accolade on Saturday has alive diplomats, affronted supporters of the filmmaker and larboard added than a few assemblage allurement themselves the aforementioned question: Why now?In a account on Tuesday, the Swiss Criminal Cloister said it will adjudge “in the abutting few weeks” on its acknowledgment to the director’s appliance to be set free. Whatever the decision, it can still be appealed to a college court, the Swiss Justice Ministry said over the weekend.Mr. Polanski’s advocate in Paris, Hervé Temime, said Mr. Polanski was gluttonous to be appear alike if altitude were absorbed to his liberty.