Harvey Weinstein went from celebrated Hollywood production-house mogul to disgraced former head of the family company seemingly overnight, as two bombshell reports that he had habitually sexually harassed and assaulted women were followed by dozens of one-off accounts detailing similar claims. Toppled from his throne, Weinstein is now under investigation by the NYPD, which has reportedly notified the Department of Homeland Security to monitor all of Weinstein’s travel, and to stop him if he attempts to leave the country.

The New York investigation into Weinstein was launched following actress Paz de la Huerta’s allegations that Weinstein raped her twice in 2010, which is within New York’s statute of limitations for prosecuting claims of sexual assault. Though Weinstein is still free to travel within the U.S., the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office are blocking him from leaving the country. “We don’t want another Roman Polanski on our hands,” a law-enforcement source told Page Six.

Polanski, who was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl, fled to France in 1977 to escape prison. Since then, more women have come forward with claims against him, but repeated attempts to extradite him to the U.S. have failed. In the wake of the tidal wave of allegations against Weinstein, however, criticism of Polanski has revved up, with French feminist organization Osez le féminisme holding a protest at the opening of a career retrospective of his work. “It’s an affront to all rape victims, and particularly Polanski’s victims,” read the group’s rejected petition to shut down the retrospective, which Polanski planned to attend. “Polanski deserves dishonour, not honours.”

The exhibition took place nonetheless, with Cinémathèque Française president Costa-Gavras ruling that it was not the institution’s place to rule on filmmakers’ morality. But the public outcry is a hopeful sign that, Weinstein, too, would find no safe harbor abroad.