GENEVA (AP) -- Roman Polanski suffered addition setback in his action against displacement to the United States on Tuesday when a Swiss court ordered the 76-year-old administrator kept in bastille because he poses a aerial flight risk.

The Federal Criminal Court rejected offers by Polanski's acknowledged team of bail, abode arrest and other measures to ensure that he stays in Switzerland.

The acclaimed filmmaker is considered a convicted felon and a fugitive by authorities in Los Angeles, and the United States is seeking his displacement for accepting sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. He was arrested by the Swiss on Sept. 26 as he arrived in Zurich to receive an accolade from a blur festival.

"The court considered the accident that Roman Polanski ability flee if released from aegis as high," the federal court said. "The bond offered by the appellant does not meet in its form the requirements set out by the law."

The attorneys based in the southern Swiss city of Bellinzona left open possibilities for Polanski to claiming its verdict, highlighting some of the options that may feature in what is expected to be a diffuse acknowledged action over his extradition.

Polanski can address to Switzerland's highest attorneys for release. He can additionally continue attempts to actuate the Swiss Justice Ministry to absolution him. More court proceedings are expected afterwards Washington files its formal displacement request, which it has until late November to submit.

The administrator of such blur classics as "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" was accused of plying the underage babe with champagne and allotment of a Quaalude allaying pill during a mo! deling s hoot in 1977, and raping her. He was initially accusable on six felony counts, including abduction by use of drugs, adolescent molesting and sodomy.

He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of actionable animal intercourse. In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the actual accuse and book him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation.

However, he was released afterwards 42 days by an evaluator who accounted him mentally sound and absurd to affront again.

The judge responded by saying he was going to send Polanski back to bastille for the remainder of the 90 days and that afterward he would ask Polanski to agree to a "voluntary deportation." Polanski again fled the country, on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was scheduled to be sentenced to the additional time.

In its 17-page verdict, the Swiss court said Polanski offered to surrender his biking documents and abide himself to daily badge checks. Those measures were seen as insufficient to prevent his flight because he could always access new passports or alike biking to his French home without papers.

France does not extradite its own citizens.

The court was additionally anxious that Polanski could leave Switzerland and avoid the displacement process if he fled by helicopter or clandestine airplane.

Lawyers for Polanski additionally offered up the director's berth in the luxury resort of Gstaad as collateral, saying it represented more than bisected of his personal wealth and that it would definitely guarantee his actual in the country because he has two children he charge support through school. The court, however, sided with Swiss authorities who said alike the large bond offer provided insufficient security against flight.

Legal experts accept said Polanski stands a minimal adventitious of a speedy release, as the law dictates that wanted individuals sho! uld be h eld in detention for the duration of their displacement procedures. There is alone limited amplitude for exemptions.

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Associated Press writers Alexander G. Higgins and Eliane Engeler contributed to this report.

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