New Poland bid to send Roman Polanski to US on rape charge

Poland’s justice minister is reviving an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the US, where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case.

Zbigniew Ziobro’s office said he asked Poland’s supreme court to annul a ruling in October by a court that Polish law forbids Polanski’s extradition.

Mr Ziobro, who took office late last year as part of a new conservative government, argues that celebrity status is shielding Polanski in Poland.