Poland’s government is to appeal against a court’s decision not to extradite the filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sexual abuse conviction.

The United States had requested Polanski’s extradition from Poland after he made a high-profile appearance in Warsaw in 2014. The filmmaker lives in Paris but also has an apartment in Krakow, southern Poland.

A Polish court rejected the request and the prosecutor’s office initially said it would not appeal against the decision.

But Zbigniew Ziobro, the justice minister and prosecutor general, said on Tuesday: “I’ve decided to file to the supreme court an appeal over the ruling ... in which the ... court decided not to extradite Mr Polanski to the US in a situation when he’s accused of and wanted for ... a rape of a child.” The announcement was reported by the Polish state news agency PAP.