2 hours 15 minutes Director Roman Polanski, who was arrested earlier this week in Switzerland, saw the weakening of support on Wednesday for his efforts as a punishment in the United States in the rape of a 13-year-old girls escape, three decades ago. Skip related content U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in New York that the extradition of Polanski from Switzerland to California's sentencing on charges of sex crimes face in 1977 Case judges, diplomats, not to manage to. Polanski, 76, was in Swiss jail after his arrest four days ago during a visit to his French home. In France, the Government changed its passionate protest against the arrests of Polanski in a measured and described the charges as serious. A spokesman for the government said, in French, "Chinatown" was also a director "or below or above the law." Great American newspapers asked the Oscar-winner for the consideration of this crime should take and there are commentators to American public opinion ran strongly against Polanski. Shortly into the film world in Hollywood and Europe, a step forward on Wednesday, the candidate's supporters. Polanski, 76, was arrested in Switzerland at the weekend and his lawyers say he will fight extradition to the United States where he faces a prison sentence of guilty to document unlawful sex with a minor in 1977, with after his first sail Champagne and sedatives. The Director of the U.S. fled in terror from a California judge would break up its negotiation of the original sentence, which the director free after he'd set 42 days in custody and instead sent him to prison-year break. Polanski initially drew outrage in diplomatic circles and art in Europe. About 100 mostly European artists have signed an online petition calling for the release of the French film industry Polanksi and American directors Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and David Lynch have assisted in. soft, but the support in Europe and Hollywood s seems to be vanishing. "With The new direction of the French government to strictly legal issues, the De r Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that if Polanski would receive consular assistance, the ministers should not be included in the extradition fight. "The case concerns a great director, but he is also a case of rape, sexual intercourse with a child, "said Tusk. French director Luc Besson told RTL radio, he loved Polanski, but was not a" not sure is the case. "I have great love for him is a man whom I love, I know a little bit … I know nothing about it, but I think if you do not test you Put in the wrong. I do not make a decision about , but it's true, I have a daughter, she is 13 and if they had been raped, I do exactly the same, even after 30 years, "said Besson. In Hollywood, influential film mogul Harvey Weinstein earlier this week for the U.S. film-maker called, fell against the extradition of Polanski lobby on many deaf ears. There were only some of the oldest friends of silence Polanski featuring Jack Nicholson, the actor who has appeared in 1974, "Chinatown" and in which the rape had taken place. Actress Whoopi Goldberg has anger in line when he did not consider the incident of sex as rape in the strict sense of the word evoked. "It was something, but I do not think that rape is rape," said Goldberg, the talk show "The View." Return editorials from The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, Polanski, 76 should be to report his crime. The press has rejected arguments in "The Pianist" director about his Oscar-winning trailer body of work and in 1969 the tragic murder of his pregnant wife Sharon Tate by the followers of Chief Charles Manson cult. "This case has nothing to do with the work of Mr Polanski or age. This is an adult game to a child. Mr. Polanski pleaded guilty to crimes, and they report," The New York Times. Los Angeles Times entertainment journalist Patrick Goldstein writes that the Post is now "on 100-1 against Polanski." (Reporting by Michelle Nichols in the United Nations and Sophie Hardach in Paris, editing by Cynthia Osterman)