GENEVA — Roman Polanski has been granted $4.5 million bail, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Alpine resort chalet.
The justice minister said Wednesday she saw no reason to appeal the decision by the Swiss Criminal Court. Polan ski would have to remain in Switzerland as authorities assess whether to extradite him to the U.S. for having sex in Los Angeles in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
“The 76-year-old appellant is married and the father of two minors,” the court said as it considered Polanski’s offer of a cash bail secured by his apartment in Paris. “It can be assumed that as a responsible father he will, especially in view of his advanced age, attach greater importance to the financial security of his family than a younger person.”
