Protesters outside a Paris concert hall hosting film awards, reportedly carried placards reading, ‘Shame on an industry that protects rapists’. Reference to Roman Polanski whose former charges reportedly included subjecting a thirteen year old girl to anal sex. A subsequent modification to a charge of unlawful sex with a minor as part of a guilty plea bargain might conceivably have been a protective measure for the victim: Polonski later left the U.S. to avoid jail and has since avoided extradition in France and Poland.
The protests on Friday resulted in gendarmes reportedly firing tear gas and keeping protestors from the red carpet. According to the news report a female actress, film director and several others walked out of the ceremony in disgust. Polanski did not attend.
Previously named Raymond Thierry Liebling, Polanski has a Polish and Jewish heritage. He is said to have been fostered under a new identity when his parents were taken off by nazis during the German occupation of Poland. His mother died in Auschwitz. In 1968 Polanski married Sharon Tate. She was murdered along with four friends the following year.
Charles Montgomery who had joined the as called Manson family, reported to be a desert commune and cult, was charged with the murders, along with three female said to be accomplices. The manson family were mainly female who reportedly used psychodelic drugs. There was no real motive apparent for the murders though some members of the group along with leader Charles Manson were said to be wanted for other murders. Notably a similar murder. Details unclear.
According to a trial report it was believed that Charles Manson neither ordered nor took part in the murders, though the girls were charged, and some time later so was Manson. The Manson commune were reportedly convinced that Satan would become reconciled to Christ; described to be coming together at the end of the world to judge humanity.