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Thu 11 Nov 2009Polanski to be released on bail of €3m

POLISH FILM director Roman Polanski is to be released by Swiss authorities after two months in prison on bail of €3 million.

Some 32 years earlier, he fled the US for Europe after pleading guilty to charges of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.