The writer Robert Harris, with whom Polanski has been working on a film adaptation of his novel The Ghost, told the Guardian he thought there was "something very odd" and "suspicious" about the timing of the arrest. "To my knowledge, Roman in recent years has travelled to Germany, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Russia, China ... So why now, all of a sudden, is an elderly man grabbed off a plane on a Saturday night and stuffed into jail? This is a high-profile action designed to send out some sort of message to someone somewhere. No one condones what happened in the Seventies, but I think this is pretty appalling." In 1977, Polanski was asked by French Vogue to take a series of photos of adolescent girls. Full Article at Irish Independent