I have been following the Polanski case for the last few days, since his arrest in Zurich, Switzerland, on the 26th of September 2009. This is a very strange arrest, after 31 years since his crime (1977).
On September 29, a spokeswoman for Department of Justice (DoJ) told a Polish TV channel that most probably Polanski's arrest in Switzerland was caused by a blunt letter of his French lawyers to the Prosecuting Attorney's Office of California.