Looks like Hollywood’s favorite kid rapist may be looking at the inside of a prison cell afterall.  Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant shortly after arriving in Zurich for a film festival featuring his work.

From the New York Times:

Mr. Polanski was detained by the police Saturday upon his arrival at the Zurich airport, said Guido Balmer, a spokesman for the Swiss Federal Justice Department. The director was being held in provisional detention in preparation for a possible extradition to the United States based on an arrest warrant dating to 1978.

Mr. Polanski, 76, was convicted that year in a California court of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl whom he had lured to the home of Jack Nicholson and drugged. Faced with a prison term, he fled the United States just before his sentencing.

Polanski has been living in France since he fled the United States.  Polanski is a French citizen and France has a very limited extradition policy with the United States. Go figure.

At the time of the sexual assault, Polanski was 44-years old.  He was photographing the 13-year old girl for the French edition of Vogue.  After giving her a combination of champagne and quaaludes, he performed a series of sex acts upon her.

Needless to say, Roman Polanski is a dirtbag. Shame on him, shame on France for protecting him all these years, and shame on those that continued to employ him to direct movies.