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polanski attacked and injured

Posted by apple on Monday, October 05 2009 at 10:44:50AM
In reply to Re: Past tense posted by Dissident on Sunday, October 04 2009 at 11:37:25AM

he's been through the mill himself.

..."Don't do it, Romek!" These were to be words Roman Polanski (whom friends still call by his childhood nickname) would hear often throughout his life, and which he almost invariably ignored.

On this occasion, he was 15 and had agreed to meet a young man named Janusz Dziuba, who had promised to sell him a new racing bicycle at a good price. That summer morning in 1949, Polanski took a friend with him to the rendezvous opposite the secret police HQ in central Krakow. When the wild-eyed Dziuba arrived carrying something bulky wrapped in a newspaper, and announced that the bike was in "the bunker", a foul-smelling air-raid shelter left behind by the Nazis, his friend grew uneasy. "You stay here," Polanski reassured him. "I'll be fine."

Dziuba led the way down a series of mouldy, graffiti-strewn passages, which levelled off into a vault-like room some 30ft below ground. The bike was just ahead of them in the corner, he murmured. Polanski had taken two steps when something caught him hard on the back of the head – a rock which Dziuba had concealed inside the newspaper. When the haze cleared, he became dimly aware of his assailant standing above him, demanding money. Polanski claimed to have none on him. Dziuba then relieved him of his watch and other valuables, before leaving him semi-comatose on the concrete floor, covered in blood.

Dziuba made his escape into the park, but was spotted and tackled by an alert lorry driver whose suspicions were aroused by the sight of a blood-spattered young man emerging from the bunker at a run. Polanski was taken to hospital, where 18 stitches were inserted in his scalp. It later emerged that Dziuba had assaulted at least eight previous victims, three of whom he had bludgeoned to death. He was tried and hanged for his crimes in December 1949...


mitigating circumstances notwithstanding - in general, Dissident i agree with your sentiments.








• ( http link ) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/roman-polanski/6258031/Why-did-Roman-Polanski-risk-it.html#
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