A free Polanski makes first public appearance

MUMBAI: Roman Polanski made his first public appearance last Saturday when he went to attend a music festival in Switzerland to support his singer wife Emmanuelle Seigner. This was the filmmaker‘s first public appearance after he regained his freedom on 12 July.

The director refused to give any interviews. However, a TV news interview with Polanski was later aired in Switzerland, in which he expressed his happiness at being free.

Polanski‘s house arrest was lifted after Swiss officials turned down American prosecutors‘ requests to extradite him on a 33-year-old child-sex charge.

He had been under house arrest at a luxury chalet in Gstaad since he was arrested in Zurich last September.