Roman Polanski, the film director and fugitive who is wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl, has said that “activists are threatening me with a public lynching.”
In November 2019, an actress named Valentine Monnier accused Polanski of raping her in 1975, when she was 18 years old.
The comments arrive after his latest film, An Officer and a Spy, was controversially nominated for 12 César Awards (often called the “French Oscars”).