Samantha Geimer has already said what happened to her and Roman Polanski was never a big deal
Writer Samantha Geimer, who was raped by director Roman Polanski when she was just 13 in 1977, shared a photo next to the director on her social media. The meeting took place 46 years after the crime that still prevents the director from returning to the United States.
The photo report was made by Samantha’s husband, David Geimer, during a meeting in Paris with Polanski and his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner. Emmanuelle herself shared the publication on her social networks. The meeting took place in early March this year, when Samantha gave an interview to Emmanuelle.
The interview was published by Le Point magazine and showed the victim defending her attacker. Samantha has stated that what happened with Polanski was never a big deal to her. She didn’t know that rape was illegal and that someone could be arrested for it. Despite the crime she suffered, she said she was fine and remained well after all these years.
Samantha stressed that the fact that they made the case something very important weighs heavily on her. Having to constantly repeat that the rape was no big deal is a horrible burden on the victim. However, she said meeting Polanski was positive and she was happy to see him again after so many years.
Polanski was arrested in 1977 for having illegal sex with the then minor. He accepted a plea deal, served 42 days in jail, and when the judge in the case threatened to withdraw from the deal, he fled the United States for refuge in France, his native country, avoiding prison. Since then, he has been considered a fugitive by US justice.
Although he is protected in France due to his citizenship, he could, in theory, be arrested and extradited if he traveled to another country. The justice of the United States has already tried twice. Traveling to Switzerland for a festival in 2009, Polanski was arrested and placed under house arrest on property he owns in the country. However, the Swiss court ended up rejecting the extradition request and released the director. In 2014, there was another attempt in Poland, the country of origin of the director, and the result was the same: the court considered that the sentence had already been served.
Speaking of the extradition attempts, Geimer called the initiative “unjust and contrary to justice”, as well as reiterating that Polanski has already served his sentence. “For my part, nobody wanted him to be arrested, but he was and that was enough for him. He paid his debt to the company. no choice but to flee,” he said in the Le Point interview.
With the emergence of the #MeToo movement on social media, Polanski’s case was again being talked about and new women came forward as alleged victims of abuse by the director in the 1970s.
Amidst this controversy, Polanski won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and the César (the French Oscar) for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2020, for “The Officer and the Spy”, which sparked repudiation from influencers and the press, and “cooled” the relationship between the director and the French film industry.
Polanski is currently working on a new film, ‘The Palace’, which is awaiting release, but no French financier, producer or studio wanted to be part of the job, which ended up receiving backing from Italy’s RAI Cinema. Also, the film was not included in this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup.
Source: Terra
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