Wednesday 5 May, 2021
Polanski has previously admitted the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in the US.
The Academy last October also voted to expel disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
The Polish-born filmmaker was accused of drugging and raping an underage girl in 1977.
Polanski “wants answers – and will only show up if he likes the answers,” the district attorney said.
The film director fled the US over 40 years ago.
A petition calling for the 83-year-old to be removed garnered nearly 62,000 signatures.
Roman Polanski is still wanted in the United States for sentencing over the 1977 statutory rape of Samantha Gailey.
The latest chapter in a four-decade saga.
The judge in the case said that an extradition procedure would “violate the human rights” of the 83-year-old director.
Polanski pleaded guilty to the 1977 rape, but left the US before he was sentenced.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker said he thought feminism and advances in contraception had blurred the distinctions between the sexes.
Controversial director under the spotlight in January schedule of films as two of his major movies are re-released.
The director returns to Zurich two years after being arrested there on sex-crime charges dating back to 1978.
