LOS ANGELES — The sudden move by Swiss authorities to arrest Roman Polanski for possible extradition to the United States after 31 years as a fugitive — and countless visits to Switzerland in the interim — has roused diplomats, offended supporters of the filmmaker and left more than a few onlookers asking themselves the same question: Why now?
Law enforcement officials here have said it was a simple matter of opportunity.
“He just showed up at a time and a place where we knew he would be available,” Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for Stephen L. Cooley, the Los Angeles County district attorney, said Monday.
But supporters of Mr. Polanski have said that this has been true many times since he fled the United States in 1978 to escape sentencing in a sex-crimes case involving a 13-year-old girl.
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