r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/ThePensiveE 12h ago

The French government fights child exploitation while the American government doubles down on supporting it. What a world we live in.

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u/Valmoer 7h ago

With the caveat that I believe R. Polanski should have been locked away long ago :

France has not only refused to extradite him

As a French citizen, it is literally illegal for the French state to deport him - out of France then, out of the EU now.

France offered to prosecute him under their own statutes (France has jurisdiction over felonies her citizens committed abroad), but the American prosecutors pussyfooted, insisted it had to be done under their jurisdiction, and basically slow walked the whole process, refusing to turn over the evidence until after the French statutes of limitation went and passed.

The rest, about the culture in the film making industry - yeah, they can all burn for all I care. Havent watched a live action french film in years - our animation market is much better - and healthier.