# Polanski released on $4.5 million bail

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 25, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-released-on-4-5-million-bail/518936 "2009-11-25T19:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-released-on-4-5-million-bail/518936/21 "2009-11-28T04:51:53Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> My understanding is that if a French citizen is charged with an offence by another country, the French government will try that person in the French courts. Exactly how that works I don’t know.

You really think they’d bother? If they didn’t try the guy for rape and fleeing justice forty years ago, why would they start now? Besides, he’s a poor, persecuted _artiste_

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**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-released-on-4-5-million-bail/518936/22 "2009-11-28T05:17:13Z")

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Yes, if the Swiss asked the French government to. The US never asked France to try him, purportedly based upon the perception that he would get a too lenient sentence in France.

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