GENEVA – The Swiss government said Wednesday it acted correctly when it tipped off the United States last month and set in motion the arrest of Roman Polanski in his decades-old child sex case. Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said e-mails obtained in Los Angeles by The Associated Press show regular police procedure when a wanted individual is expected in Switzerland.
The documents obtained under a U.S. public records request show the Swiss ministry sent an urgent fax to the U.S. Office of International Affairs on Sept. 22 stating Polanski was traveling to Zurich. The director was to be feted at a film festival, and Swiss officials wanted to know if the U.S. would be submitting a request for his arrest as he was the subject of an international law enforcement "Red Notice."
"An arrest is a big operation and we needed to know if the warrant was still valid," Galli told the AP. "The Americans immediately confirmed that was the case."
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