The daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte was strangled, a post-mortem has revealed.

Michaela McAreavey was found dead in her bathtub at the four-star Legends Hotel in Mauritius during her honeymoon.
The 27-year-old Irish woman had married John McAreavey, a member of Down's Gaelic football team, on 30 December. He is not a suspect.
Police in Mauritius are questioning 10 people about the death.
They said that they are examining CCTV footage from the complex.
An official from the Irish Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, is travelling to Mauritius to help Mr McAreavey.
'No forced entry'
A post-mortem examination has found that there were marks on Mrs McAreavey's neck, police said.
Police Inspector Ranjit Jokhoo told the BBC that Mr and Mrs McAreavey had been having a cup of tea at an outdoor cafe after using the swimming pool at the Indian Ocean resort.
Ms McAreavey then went back to her room, which was about 50m away, to fetch something, said to be biscuits for her tea, Insp Jokhoo said.
When she failed to return after 20 to 30 minutes, her husband went to the room to look for her. He found her dead in the bathtub in the room.
The area has been cordoned off while the investigation continues.
The inspector said that the killer had used an electronic key card to enter the room, as there had been no forced entry. He said that nothing had been found to have been stolen.
"We are inspecting all the cards. We are trying to find out if any forged cards have been used," Insp Jokhoo said.
The Legends Hotel beach resort is situated in the fishing village of Grand Gaube, in the north-eastern corner of the island, and boasts a luxury spa, three swimming pools and five restaurants. The couple booked in last Saturday and were due to leave on Sunday.
Police say they are confident they will find the perpetrator.
"As far as I know this is the first time a tourist has been attacked and lost their life here. It's an isolated case, but still it shouldn't have happened," Insp Jokhoo said.
Mrs McAreavey's brother, Mark and her husband's parents, who were on holiday in Thailand when they heard the news, are on their way to Mauritius.
In Michaela McAreavey's home town of Ballygawley, the flowers from the couple's wedding less than two weeks ago remain on the altar. The roads around the Harte family home are lined with cars.
BBC NI reporter Mark Sidebottom who went to the family home said it was "profoundly sad".
"Mickey Harte is a very, very religious man. He said to me 'I am sure there must be some meaning to this, but right now, I cannot see that at the moment.'"
Mrs McAreavey taught Irish at St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon, County Tyrone, and was a former contestant in the Rose of Tralee pageant.
She was very close to her father and was at his side on the three occasions that his team won the all-Ireland championship at Croke Park, Dublin, in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
He brought the couple to Dublin Airport on their journey to Mauritius following their wedding.
Gaelic football is one of the most popular sports in Ireland with players and managers often afforded celebrity status.
Fr Gerard McAleer, who managed the Tyrone team along with Mickey Harte, has been comforting the family.
He attended her wedding last month and said he had known her "all her life".
Fr McAleer said the tragedy was "compounded by the distance involved and the frustration of nobody being there with John".
Fr McAleer said he had "exhausted" his vocabulary trying to articulate his feelings about Michaela.
"Michaela was just one in a million, she was a wonderful role model. Not only did she want to teach Irish, she wanted to teach Religious Education.
"We often talked about the struggle between good and evil in the world and the importance of faith and coping with tragedy and grief and giving some kind of shape to our lives.
"To think this is the fate that awaited Michaela is beyond us."
The priest said he had talked to Mickey Harte after hearing of Michaela's death on Monday.
"I met Mickey yesterday immediately after I heard the news and he said 'She packed so much into her young life and we have so much to be thankful for' - how gracious in such a moment of intense grief."
Tourism Minister for Mauritius Nandcoomar Bodha said there would be a "fully fledged" investigation into Mrs McAreavey's death.
He said the island was "deeply saddened and distressed" at the tragedy.
"The people of Mauritius are shattered by this," he said,"It is the first time anything like this has happened. Our crime levels are very low, that is why we are shocked.
"Mauritius has always been a safe haven, for something like this to happen in one of the main hotels is a tragedy."
NI Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said: "Michaela was always close to her father's side during many great days for Tyrone football.
"Her enthusiasm for her native county, for which she was an excellent ambassador, knew no bounds."
First Minister Peter Robinson and the SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie have also sent their condolences to the Harte family.


Second-rower Tom Olbison has signed a new one-year deal with Widnes Vikings.

Olbison, 26, has scored one try in 18 games so far this season, having arrived from Bradford in January.
He moved to the Vikings following Bradford's liquidation before the start of the season and agreed a one-year deal with a further 12-month option.
Meanwhile, Widnes hooker Aaron Heremaia will miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury in Friday's defeat by Wakefield.
Following a medical assessment, the club said the former New Zealand international is "likely" to be out for at least 10 weeks.


Preparations are under way to let as many people as possible to see and smell a rare flower that emits a horrible "stench" in Cambridge.

A titan arum is expected to bloom for the first time at any moment at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
The last time one flowered there was in 2004. The bloom lasts a few days and gives off a horrible smell.
When it flowers, the garden will be open late to enable visitors to smell it "at its night-time stinkiest".
"Amorphophallus titanum is a very unusual plant. It lives mostly in an underground tuber which every year puts out one gigantic leaf several metres tall that lasts for the growing season," Prof Beverley Glover, director of the garden, said.
Last month the same flower bloomed for the first time in Scotland.


The artist David Hockney has warned road labourers in his home town of Bridlington in Yorkshire that they are digging up one of his main sources of inspiration and a piece of art history.

Hockney has taken roadwork managers to his studio to show them new paintings of Woldgate, an unspoilt country lane, and tell them not to do lasting damage.
He has also visited the site several times to personally monitor the works.
His images of Woldgate will be shown at the Royal Academy in London next year.
"David's been absolutely fixated on Woldgate and painted, drawn, photographed and filmed it extensively over recent years," said Zoe Silver of Salts Mill in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, which houses a large collection of Hockney's work.
"A lot of the Royal Academy show will be made up of that [work]."
A photographic piece, made up of three 27-foot (eight metre) images of the Bridlington end of the road, taken at different times of the year, went on show for the first time at Salts Mill on Wednesday.
As well as the paintings and photographs, Hockney has made a film on the road using 18 cameras, which will be displayed at the Royal Academy on multiple screens.
At a press conference for the show last week, the artist described the route as "a lovely little bit of England that is not spoiled".
Workers are digging up the road to lay a new gas pipe for the town. Hockney gave them a list of specific spots to leave undamaged, such as a tree stump and a bluebell wood.
John O'Grady, communications manager for Northern Gas Networks, who took part in the discussions with Hockney, said: "His concern was that, because we are putting in this massive new gas pipeline, the environment could have been affected detrimentally.
"His PA went down to the site and pointed out to the operational people the particular locations which were treasured by Mr Hockney and other local people.
"For example, there's a tree stump which is known locally as the totem pole, and we obviously went out of our way to make sure we kept well away from that particular local feature."
Mr O'Grady described the artist as a "a plain-speaking Yorkshireman" but said the discussions had been constructive.
"He has been down several times and kept a very close eye on what we've been doing," he said. "Which is fine and we understand that.
"We're happy to work with Mr Hockney and the other local people. So far the feedback has been very good."
Mr O'Grady said he was "gobsmacked" to be invited to the artist's studio to get a preview of works that will be on show at the Royal Academy, and to be given lunch at Hockney's home.
The exhibition at Salts Mill also includes pictures created by Hockney on his iPad and iPhone alongside portraits of his family, friends and acquaintances drawn on a computer.


A woman who pocketed over £50,000 by claiming false benefits and targeting vulnerable people has been ordered to pay back a token amount of £1.

Maria Pridmore, 36, was jailed for three years in August after she admitted a string of frauds.
They included obtaining more than £16,000 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support.
Pridmore, who was described in court as a "Walter Mitty" fraudster, also stole over £30,000 from four women.
She appeared by video-link at Lincoln Crown Court from Drake Hall prison in Staffordshire where she is serving her sentence.
The court heard Pridmore, a former drug addict, benefitted by £56,679 from her crimes but had no available assets which could be confiscated to pay back her victims.
Judge Simon Hirst ruled that in the circumstances a nominal sum of £1 should be paid.
Pridmore made news in 2012 when she gave birth to a daughter after previously suffering 14 miscarriages, a stillbirth and the death of an infant son.
At her sentence hearing, the court heard the former nurse had been claiming to be a lone-parent with dependent children in order to get benefits, but at various times failed to declare she had moved or was living with her then partner as man and wife.
Pridmore also pocketed more than £30,000 from friends and two elderly women, and used the bank details of one of her victims to pay for a £60 taxi fare to attend a court hearing.
She stole almost £8,000 from one victim, an 84-year-old vulnerable woman.
Pridmore, of Angel Lane, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, previously admitted seven charges of benefit fraud between August 2010 and March 2013, 19 charges of fraud and theft between January 2013 and May 2016 and stealing her father's flat-packed kitchen in April 2015.


Goalball UK is "hopeful" of increased funding following promotion to the European A League for both Britain's men's and women's teams.

The women beat Germany 4-1 to win the European B Championships, while the men finished runners-up to Ukraine to secure their consecutive promotions.
"It's the first step towards Tokyo," said assistant women's coach, Becky Ashworth.
"I'd like to think either UK Sport or Sport England will fund us."
Ashworth, who is also Goalball UK's national development manager, added: "The amount we'll probably need in the next year is £70,000 - which for some sports isn't a great deal of money, but for us it would mean the world."
Both teams have been without UK Sport funding since 2014 - the men's team having lost theirs following a group stage exit at the London Paralympics and the women after an eighth-place finish at the 2013 European A Championships condemned them to relegation.
Since then they have relied on individual fundraising, private sponsorship and Sport England money to compete.
"Since London 2012 we've tripled our participation as a national governing body," Ashworth added.
"So I hope that Sport England and UK Sport will see that and are willing to support us."
The European A League is the highest level in European goalball and gives both teams the chance to qualify for the 2018 World Championships and 2020 Paralympics.
"You can really sense that GB are turning a lot of heads in the goalball world," said Georgie Bullen, who is part of the women's team.
"If we continue like this throughout this Paralympic cycle, there is no reason why there couldn't be a GB team in Tokyo.
"We just have to focus on the things we can control and have our fingers crossed [for funding]."
Goalball is a sport for athletes with visual impairments and involves players attempting to roll or throw a basketball-sized ball with bells inside into their opponents' goal.
The ball must make contact with certain areas of the court and, once it has passed these points, defenders will attempt to block the ball with their bodies.
The game is played by two teams of three on a standard volleyball court and the goals are nine metres in width, which is the same length as the court.


A cameraman working in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and is to be flown home to the US for treatment.

The 33-year-old freelancer has been working in the country for three years for a number of media outlets, most recently NBC News.
More than 3,330 people have died in four West African countries in what has become the world's worst outbreak.
President Barack Obama has pledged federal support to contain the spread in the US, after the first case there.
A Liberian man diagnosed in Texas on Tuesday remains in a serious condition.
The unnamed cameraman is the fourth American known to test positive for Ebola, all diagnosed in Liberia.
Three American aid workers were separately flown back to the US for treatment and they are all recovering.
The man was only hired by NBC News on Tuesday, the US broadcaster said, and he came down with symptoms - including fever and aches - the following day.
After seeking medical advice, he tested positive for the virus.
NBC News President Deborah Turness informed staff of the news in a statement.
"We are doing everything we can to get him the best care possible. He will be flown back to the United States for treatment at a medical center that is equipped to handle Ebola patients."
The rest of the NBC crew including the network's chief medical editor, Dr Nancy Snyderman, are being flown back to the US on a private charter flight and will be placed under quarantine for 21 days, Ms Turness added.
Meanwhile, as many as 100 people in Texas are being checked for exposure to Ebola, after Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national, was diagnosed with the virus in Dallas.
He flew to the US two weeks ago to visit relatives.
A number of them have been ordered to stay home while they are watched for signs of the disease.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings was called by Mr Obama on Thursday who promised to help with whatever was needed from federal resources to stop it spreading.
Mr Duncan was the first person diagnosed on US soil and on Thursday, Liberian officials said they would prosecute him for lying on an Ebola questionnaire form prior to leaving the country.
Deputy Information Minister Isaac Jackson said Mr Duncan had "lied under oath about his Ebola status".
He is alleged to have taken a sick relative to a clinic.
In West Africa. the outbreak has prompted dire warnings of economic collapse if infection rates continue.
There have been 7,178 confirmed cases in total, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most.
Leading charity Save the Children has warned that Ebola was spreading at a "terrifying rate" in West Africa, with the number of new recorded cases doubling every few weeks.
It said that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone meant healthcare demands were far outstripping supply.
At a conference in London co-hosted with Sierra Leone, the UK called for urgent decisive action from the international community.
Ebola virus: Busting the myths


Detectives have identified a man who was shot and killed on a busy street as Yasir Beshira.

Mr Beshira, 21, was pronounced dead on Kilburn High Road in north-west London at 17:20 GMT on Thursday after being shot in the abdomen.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.
Metropolitan Police said they believe Mr Beshira was shot on Palmerston Road and staggered 200 yards.
Officers are searching for a man described as slim and white who was wearing jeans and a dark top with his hood up and the lower half of his face covered.
Members of the public were already attending to Mr Beshira, who had collapsed outside a cafe, when the emergency services arrived.
Witnesses described the area as "mayhem" after the shooting with reports of fights breaking out in a crowd.
Det Ch Insp Andy Partridge said the gunman was "loitering in and around Palmerston Road and the Webheath Estate prior to the attack".
He said: "We know the area was extremely busy at the time of the shooting.
"I am convinced that other members of the public have either seen the incident itself, or have seen the suspect arrive at the scene or flee after the shooting."


The notebooks of the Scottish folklore pioneer Alexander Carmichael have been prepared for publication.

It will be the first time Carmichael's work has been available in its entirety.
From 1860, he spent 50 years collecting legends, songs, curses and oral history from Gaelic-speakers.
Researchers and archivists have worked for two years preparing the notes for publication by the University of Edinburgh.
Carmichael's work has led to him being likened to the brothers Grimm in Germany.
His volume Carmina Gadelica, published in 1900, is estimated to have included only a tenth of his original research material.
Senior researcher Dr Donald William Stewart said: "Alexander Carmichael tirelessly, even obsessively, recorded the culture, lore and beliefs of his native Scottish highlands.
"By the end of his life in 1912, he was both Celtic guru and folklore jukebox, the internationally-recognised authority on Scottish Gaelic songs, stories, traditions and beliefs.
"Carmichael's voluminous papers, now preserved in Edinburgh University library, form one of the foremost folklore collections in the world."
Carmichael carried out his research while working as a tax collector on Lewis, Argyll, Uist and the west highlands. Researchers said the transcription of his notes was hindered by his "notoriously bad handwriting".
The work has been published online at the Carmichael Watson project website.
An exhibition called Unlocking the Celtic Collector will run at Edinburgh University library until 22 July.


Somerset ended the first day at Old Trafford with a narrow lead on 153-8 after bowling out Lancashire for 109.

A painstaking 66 from Somerset's South Africa opener Dean Elgar earned the visitors their slight advantage after a day in which 18 wickets fell.
Craig Overton (5-47) did most of the morning damage, but it was Josh Davey who gave England opener Haseeb Hameed his second duck in as many innings.
Somerset were chiefly rescued by Elgar's 53-run stand with Peter Trego.
Their partnership came when the visitors had slumped to 67-4, only marginally better than Lancashire's lunch score of 64-6, having been put in.
Elgar has so far battled his way past 151 balls, a number of which were hurled down by an impressive looking James Anderson, so far limited to just one wicket, and the even better Ryan McLaren, who finished the day with figures of 4-46.
After Davey had removed both Alex Davies and Hameed for ducks, Overton made light of the loss of twin brother Jamie with a hamstring injury, removing Luke Procter (24), Rob Jones and Dean Vilas in quick succession.
But, with Anderson taking the new ball for Lancashire, it was always likely that batting might also prove difficult for Somerset.
McLaren made the breakthrough with a beauty that former England opener Marcus Trescothick edged to Davies for 20 - the first of four wickets for McLaren who bowled superbly throughout the afternoon, also dismissing captain Abell, Trego (19) and Overton.
Procter weighed in with three wickets and will resume on a hat-trick after removing Lewis Gregory and Davey in successive balls.
Lancashire captain Liam Livingstone told BBC Radio Manchester:
"We thought it was going to be a good pitch but you couldn't quite see the moisture underneath it until you marked your guard. There was a bit in the pitch in the morning and they bowled well.
"It wasn't easy. I just shut my eyes, swung, and connected. We could have played a bit better, and it has been a tough day for us, but we have dragged it back well in the last session.
"We don't want their lead to get much bigger, but when we were 42-6, we would have taken the position we are in now. We have to keep it tight in the morning and then graft, put a price on every wicket."
Somerset spinner Jack Leach:
"18 wickets in a day is a lot and both teams bowled well. We'll look to get as many as we can in the morning and then bowl like we did in the first innings and be as patient as possible.
"All the seamers bowled really well and made a contribution and it was only me who didn't get a bowl which is fine because means everyone is doing their job.
"It was swinging quite a lot and of course you're facing Jimmy Anderson, one of the best bowlers inn the world, so it was a really good challenge so I tried to look at it positively and get in the fight."


Cuts to police budgets have resulted in slower response times to 999 calls, Labour has claimed.

Research has revealed that some forces have seen response times to overnight emergency calls go up by nearly 30%.
A second study found that abandonment rates - where 999 calls are not answered and forwarded to another line or police force - have also rocketed.
The government said front line policing was being protected and crime had fallen by 10% since 2010.
According to Labour Party research, based on Freedom of Information requests answered by 14 police forces, response times for 999 calls between 2300 and 0600 rose from 2011 to 2012.
They included a 29% increase at Durham Constabulary and a 25% rise in Devon and Cornwall.
Source: Labour Party research
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: "These new police response time figures show the service provided to the public is being hollowed out by [Home Secretary] Theresa May.
"The police are doing what they can, but the scale and pace of the government's cuts over the last three years is hitting services despite its promises that the front line would not be hit."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "It is for local forces to ensure that they are responding promptly to 999 calls.
"Police reform is working and recorded crime is down by more than ten per cent under this government.
"There is no question the police still have the resources to do their important work.
"What is absolutely clear is that the proportion of police officers in front line roles is increasing."
Durham police and crime commissioner Ron Hogg said he "totally supported" Ms Cooper's concerns.
He said: "The pace and depths of the cuts is entirely unnecessary and is increasingly bringing undue pressure on the front line.
"In Durham Constabulary, we are still maintaining good standards of performance but this becomes increasingly difficult day by day."
Devon and Cornwall Police said: "Our current performance shows 69.5% of all immediate calls created have been attended within the target time of 20 minutes over the last 12 months, against an internal target of 85%.
"However, this contains a number of logs initially graded at a lower priority which have later been upgraded to immediate for an operational reason and hence have failed the target time."
Devon and Cornwall police also fared badly in research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism into 999 call "abandonment rates".
According to its figures, the force's abandonment rate for emergency calls rose to 6.15% in 2012, with police operators failing to answer 12,835 calls.
The abandonment rate for 2010 was 0.5%, with 1054 calls not answered.
The Devon and Cornwall figures were the worst of the six forces which responded to the FOI request.
The force said: "Should a 999 call not be answered within two minutes, it is automatically diverted to a an alternative line and then on to our nominated buddy force, which is currently Dorset.
"Each time the call is re-presented on another line, it is categorised as abandoned - although it is in reality the same call being re-presented and hence the term 'abandoned' gives a misrepresentation of the picture.
"Our current year to date performance for answering 999 calls is 92.48%, with our target being 90%."
Steve Williams, chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, which represents rank and file officers, said: "We have lost more than 12,000 police officers since the 2010 general election.
"While our members have risen admirably to the challenge, and will always strive to provide the best possible service, there is a limit to what they can do when resources are being stretched so thinly.
"The depth of the government's policing cuts was always going to impact on service delivery and that has been borne out in these figures."
"Now we are seeing the evidence of increasing delays."


Voters across England are going to the polls for council elections and a parliamentary by-election in South Shields.

Elections are being held in 27 English county councils and seven unitary authorities, last contested in 2009, as well as in Anglesey in Wales.
Labour are defending the South Shields seat in a contest caused by the resignation of David Miliband in March.
Mayoral contests are also being held in Doncaster and North Tyneside.
Polls for all the contests opened at 07:00 BST, and close at 22:00 BST.
Blue sky and sunshine are covering much of England, as millions of voters choose who will represent them on their local council.
More than 2,300 seats are up for grabs in county councils and unitary authorities across the length and breadth of England, including Derbyshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Essex, Surrey, Leicestershire, Kent, Durham, Bristol and Cornwall.
The Conservatives and Labour are putting up candidates in most seats, with 2,263 and 2,168 candidates respectively.
The Lib Dems have 1,763 candidates. UKIP is fielding 1,745 candidates, three times as many as it did the last time these seats were fought in 2009, and the Greens have 893 candidates.
Other parties standing include the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, which is fighting 120 seats, the BNP, with 99 candidates and the English Democrats, with 38 candidates. There are around 900 independent candidates.
No elections are taking place in London, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
The majority of council results are expected on Friday between 11:00 BST and 18:30 BST, although six councils - Lincolnshire, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Gloucestershire and Hampshire - will declare their results in the early hours of Friday morning.
The result for the South Shields by-election is also expected early on Friday morning.


Commuters are being asked to stand rather than walk on the left side of escalators at a central London Tube station to see if it can cut queues.

The three-week trial on the 23.4m long 'up' escalator at Holborn station is taking place during peak hours.
Transport for London said the move will "increase the capacity" and prevent "queuing at the bottom" as people stand on both sides of the escalator.
More than 56 million passengers use the station every year.
Usually passengers stand to the right, leaving the left side free for people to walk up or down the escalators.
Holborn Tube station, one of the busiest on the network, is set to get a new entrance and an enlarged ticket hall in order to increase its capacity by 80% by 2022.
Peter McNaught, operations director for the Central line, said: "In the meantime, as part of a three-week trial to reduce queues and keep people moving through the station, we are encouraging customers to stand on both sides of the 'up' escalators during busy periods.
"We believe this will increase the capacity of the escalators as more people will be able to board, preventing queuing at the bottom of the escalator."


Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has dismissed the significance of the club chasing a record 11th straight victory at the beginning of a season.

City can equal the record set by Tottenham Hotspur at the start of the 1960-61 season by defeating Celtic.
Guardiola is more concerned with making progress in Champions League Group C.
"Believe me, I'm not focused on this little record, because another team will come and beat the record in the future," the Spaniard said.
"What I want is to play good, to continue what we did in the last months, many things we did really well and aspects we can improve [and] do it to win the game.
"My happiness as a coach is to see the team getting better. Every game is hard. A win helps to win more. Confidence is a real aspect for our development and how we want to play."
Guardiola says he expects a very different Celtic performance on Wednesday to the one that ended with a 7-0 defeat away to Barcelona in the opening round of fixtures.
The City manager watched the Old Firm game, which Celtic won 5-1 at Celtic Park, and he believes Brendan Rodgers' side will play with the intensity and drive they showed against their Glasgow rivals.
"I saw the game against Rangers here how intensive they were," Guardiola said. "It was completely different to the way they were in Barcelona, where they were more passive.
"Against Rangers, it was so aggressive, high, high pressing and that is the game we're going to expect tomorrow night.
"I know Celtic here are so strong. I spoke with my old players and all of them said it's a special stadium, for the environment, the fans, the way they play. It's a good challenge for us to know our level in Europe away.
"What happened in Barcelona is not the most important thing tomorrow. This is two weeks ago - professional players when you win, the day after, two days after you have another game and you are focused on that. When you lose, it's the same situation.
"[It is a] big opportunity to make a huge step forward for our qualification. I am confident, of course, in what we have to do."


Thousands of government supporters across Brazil have been taking part in marches to show their backing for President Dilma Rousseff.

The opposition has called for Ms Rousseff's impeachment over a huge corruption scandal in the state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
Most of the politicians accused of taking bribes are from Brazil's governing coalition.
Anti-government marches are expected to take place on Sunday.
Ms Rousseff was head of Petrobras for seven years, when much of the corruption is believed to have taken place.
But she has not been implicated in the corruption scandal.
Government supporters say the calls for her impeachment, less than four months after she was re-elected to a second four-year term, amounts to a coup attempt.
Pro-government demonstrations are going ahead in 14 Brazilian states. Most of them have been called by unions that support the governing Workers' Party.
"I am here to prevent that they take away the social benefits we have earned," said 69-year-old Alaide Pereira da Silva at a march in the city of Ribeirao Preto, in Sao Paulo state.
"We can't blame Dilma [Rousseff]. The congressmen are to blame. She doesn't govern on her own," she told O Globo newspaper.
Last week, the Supreme Court approved the investigation of 54 people for their alleged involvement in the kickback scheme.
The list was prepared by the Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, who alleged that private companies paid corrupt officials in order to get lucrative Petrobras contracts.
According to the investigation, high-profile politicians also took a share of the money siphoned off from the oil company.
Mr Junot's list includes Senate President Renan Calheiros, President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha, former Energy Minister Edison Lobao and former President Fernando Collor de Mello.
In December, prosecutors charged executives from six of the country's largest construction firms for allegedly channelling kickbacks into a Petrobras scheme to pay politicians.


The 45,000-mile Volvo Ocean Race will return to Great Britain in its next edition for the first time in 12 years.

Competitors will reach Cardiff in May 2018 before racing across the top of Britain to Gothenburg, Sweden.
The 2017-18 race, the longest in the competition's history, will begin in Alicante, Spain in November next year and end in the Netherlands.
British Olympic silver medallist Ian Walker skippered Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing to victory in the 2015 edition.
The race will also pass through Cape Town in South Africa, Hong Kong, Auckland in New Zealand and southern Brazil on a route that takes in 11 cities across five continents.


An anonymous chat app linked to cyber bullying has been suspended in the Republic of Ireland, but children in Northern Ireland can still download it.

SimSimi temporarily removed access in the Republic this week, with a message: "I do not talk in Ireland for a while".
But schools in Northern Ireland are alerting parents about the app and asking them to check children's phones.
And police in County Down have sent out an alert warning that messages can be both "abusive" and "explicit".
The app allows users to type in people's names.
They then get an anonymous, sometimes insulting and nasty message back.
St Paul's High School, Bessbrook, sent out a warning about the "potential dangers" linked to the app - the school said it had been tipped off by some responsible pupils.
It has asked parents to remove the app from their children's phones.
Principal Jarlath Burns said: "The school is concerned that the app is still available and is active in Northern Ireland, and would encourage the makers of the app to adopt the approach they have implemented in other parts of the island."
Mr Burns said the school has used its social media networks to warn parents and ask them to monitor their children's online behaviour.
"This critical pastoral message has been reinforced at school assemblies all week, and form teachers and pastoral leaders are continuing to deliver this advice in class time," he said.
Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch, also sent out a tweet urging pupils to remove the app from all devices for their own safety.
On its Facebook page, PSNI Down said it was unusual for police to highlight apps, but the SimSimi app gave them "cause for concern".
"It appears to be a computer generated chat room where you talk to a very abusive computer!
"We had only been using the app for two minutes before we got quite the surprise!" says the post.
"Please be aware of it and its explicit nature! The app is rated as 17+ but I am twice that age and was really shocked at some of the stuff that came back!
"We have reported it to the App Store and will include it in our Internet Safety talks but parents, carers and internet users should keep an eye out for it and avoid."
The app stems from South Korea.
It works by using both artificial intelligence and user-generated content - scanning conversations in its database and giving a response based on that. It was originally marketed as a "fun playful robot".
James O'Higgins-Norman, director of the National Anti-Bullying Research Centre at Dublin City University, said it was being downloaded "in huge numbers" across Ireland last week.
"We saw the potential for cyber bullying and we began to put out warnings through the media to parents and to schools," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster on Friday.
Catherine Flanagan, a secondary school teacher in Dublin, said the app "took of" within a matter of a few days. She was alerted by a student who was worried about her 11-year-old sister.
"In primary school, students were getting messages when they put in their name and they couldn't understand where that had come from," she said.
"Some of the responses were very nasty. What started as a bit of fun had quite quickly become something where students were being insulted about being too fat or too ugly and very personal things, things they might only know about each other.
"It became something much more sinister and harder to deal with."
Her son, Jake, 15, said  the app quickly became "a massive hit" in school.
"Almost everyone had it and, at the start, it was a bit of fun," he said.
"But then people were putting in mean comments about people, and there was no way of telling who had said it.  For one friend, at the beginning it was all fine and inside jokes, but within a couple of days every time he looked up his name, something mean was being said. It hurt him a lot and he became very down."
The BBC asked the app developers in south Korea for a statement, but so far has had no reply.


Celtic were beaten but not disgraced as they warmed up for their crucial Champions League match against Astana with a loss to Barcelona in Dublin.

Barca took the lead in splendid style, Arda Turan placing a marvellous finish beyond Craig Gordon after 10 minutes.
A defensive blunder from Jose Antonio Martinez gifted Leigh Griffiths a leveller, but Efe Ambrose diverted a cross into his own net a minute later.
Munir Mohamed made it 3-1 to secure a comfortable win for Barca.
There was no suggestion of Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers fielding a weakened side ahead of the crucial Champions League third-round, second-leg qualifier on Wednesday.
Seven of the team who secured a 1-1 draw in the away leg against Astana in midweek started in Dublin. New signing Kolo Toure was not deemed ready for match action.
Barca were without the likes of Gerard Pique, Andres Iniesta and Neymar for their first pre-season match, but Luis Enrique did include the towering talents of Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
James Forrest was on the bench for the match in Kazakhstan and may wish he had been on the sidelines at the Aviva Stadium after being embarrassed in the build-up to Barcelona's opening goal.
He was nutmegged and left for dead wide on the right by Aleix Vidal, who rolled the ball across the edge of the box for Turan to curl a sumptuous finish into the top corner.
The Scottish champions were gifted an equaliser just before the half-hour mark, with Leigh Griffiths able to fire home from close range after Jose Antonio Martinez's errant touch near his own goal presented the striker with a tap-in.
Barca regained the lead just a minute later, Ambrose turning Juan Camara's cross into his own net, before Suarez teed up Mohamed to make it 3-1 at the break.
With that Champions League qualifier looming, Celtic made seven changes at the break. And with the second half punctuated by further substitutions on both sides, the match became subdued, with very few chances on created on either side.
Barca left with the spoils, but Rodgers will feel it was a very useful outing for his men as they gear up for a vital 90 minutes at Celtic Park against Astana on Wednesday night.
The Celtic manager was left concerned by an injury picked up by midfielder Nir Bitton, placing his participation against Astana in doubt.
"Disappointment we may have lost Nir Bitton so we'll see how he goes," Rodgers told Sky Sports.
"Looks like he's twisted his ankle which prevented him from being able to move so well in the first half. But other than that all the players have come through it well.
"Great experience for them and we'll be getting ready now for Wednesday."
Celtic: Gordon, Janko, Ambrose, O'Connell, Izaguirre, Brown, Bitton, McGregor, Roberts, Griffiths, Forrest.
Subs: Fasan (Gordon 45), Fisher (Izaguirre 77), Ciftci (Roberts 45), Dembele (Griffiths 45), Armstrong (McGregor 45), Christie (Forrest 63), Rogic (Bitton 45), Allan (Brown 45), Ajer (O'Connell 45), McCart (Ambrose 63), Ralston (Janko 63).
Barcelona: Masip, Vidal, Camara, Mathieu, Roberto, Martinez, Denis Suarez, Arda Turan, Luis Suarez, Munir, Messi.
Subs: J.Suárez, J.Martínez, Borja, Gumbau, Samper (Messi 45), Aleñá (Denis Suarez 61), Tello, Carbonell, Marlon (Mathieu 61), Mujica, Nili, Alfaro (Suarez 61).


Chesterfield have signed Sheffield United's England Under-20 midfielder Louis Reed on a season-long loan deal.

Reed, 19, has already made 59 appearances for the Blades, having become their youngest-ever player when making his debut as a 16-year-old.
"When I got the call to say that Chesterfield were interested in me, I couldn't turn it down," he told the Spireites website.
Chesterfield have now made 10 signings since their relegation from League One.
Goalkeeper Joe Anyon, defenders Scott Wiseman, Brad Barry and Jerome Binnom-Williams, midfielders Jordan Sinnott and Jak McCourt and strikers Chris O'Grady, Delial Brewster and Gozie Ugwu have all joined.
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An investigation is needed after two people died waiting for treatment in a hospital corridor, a patients' watchdog says.

Some patients at Worcestershire Royal Hospital are said to have been waiting up to 54 hours over the Christmas and New Year period.
One person died from cardiac arrest after waiting 35 hours and a second had an aneurysm and died despite treatment, the BBC understands.
The trust said it was not commenting.
Peter Pinfield, chairman of Healthwatch Worcestershire - the patient care watchdog for the county - has called for an investigation saying the public needed to know the reasons behind the delays.
There is no evidence to connect the deaths with winter pressures on the hospital.
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said patient confidentiality prevented it from discussing the deaths, but added it had "robust plans" to maintain patient safety and emergency care.
John Freeman said his wife spent 38 hours on a trolley on New Year's Day following a stroke. He told BBC News there were many others in the same situation.
"My wife was stuck on a trolley right next to the fire doors on a corridor and she couldn't get any sleep because all the trolleys were banging into the fire doors going in and out, so they stuck her in the plaster room which is ridiculous," he said.
Robin Walker, Conservative MP for Worcester, said lengthy delays at accident and emergency were "unacceptable", and would be meeting Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Monday.
But he said a "significant expansion" of A&E was needed as it is now serving the whole of Worcestershire when it was built in the 1990s to just cater for people living in Worcester.
"What I really want it to make sure is, that we get the new management that have been brought in to run the trust working with the government to deliver that on the shortest possible timescale."
Meanwhile, a group campaigning to keep services at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch has disbanded after four-and-a-half years.
The Save the Alex group said it did not feel it was being listened to by bosses running Worcestershire's hospitals.
On Friday the trust launched a consultation on planned changes to acute hospital services in the county which could see more patients going from Redditch to Worcester for emergency treatment.
Neal Stote, Save the Alex chairman, said the consultation was "too little, too late".
"From a campaigning point of view we have lost," he said.
A spokesman for the trust said the model outlined in the consultation would provide safe and sustainable hospital services to residents for many years.


The first early adopters will be able to get their hands on Windows 10 from Wednesday.

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Microsoft is rolling out access to the latest version of its operating system in waves, to make sure everything runs smoothly.
The first people will be notified that an update is available on 29 July, while everyone else will have to wait.
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones was given a crash course in Windows 10 by product manager Ian Moulster.
He showed Rory some of the operating system's new features, including its voice controlled assistant Cortana.
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Cavan booked a semi-final meeting with Tyrone by seeing off Armagh by eight points at Breffni Park on Sunday.

A Dara McVeety goal in the 25th-minute helped Terry Hyland's men establish a 1-9 to 0-7 half-time lead.
Martin Reilly converted a penalty 10 minutes into the second half after Cian Mackey had been brought down.
Armagh had a chance to cut their deficit to three but Stefan Campbell's weak penalty was saved by home goalkeeper Raymond Galligan.
Seanie Johnston, up against his former boss at Kildare Kieran McGeeney, landed seven points and was one of Cavan's eight scorers on the day.
Just three players were on target for the Orange County and in the end they fell well short.
Armagh played an outfield man in goals, Ballyhegan club man Paul Courtney making his Championship debut.
He was unable to keep out Reilly's penalty while, soon afterwards, his opposite number Raymond Galligan saved Campbell's poorly directed effort.
Armagh made a decent enough start, scoring three of the first four points.
But five unanswered scores - three of them from Johnston - saw things swing the way of the favourites, and there were seven points in it when Reilly advanced to feed McVeety who netted from close-range.
Tony Kernan and Ethan Rafferty got the last two scores of the half, but Armagh still trailed by five at the break.
It looked all over when Reilly's penalty made it 2-11 to 0-9, but Armagh had a great chance to ignite the contest when Killian Clarke's foul on Campbell resulted in a penalty.
However, Campbell's kick was too close to Galligan who saved and Cavan went straight up the pitch to go 2-13 to 0-12 up through Johnston. Then, it really was over.
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Cavan skipper Gearoid McKiernan: "We put massive work in all year and learned a lot from a training camp we had in Portugal.
"We have three weeks now to prepare to play Tyrone and we'll want to put in a good performance at Clones.
"We lost to them in the league final because they played like a Division One side and we played like a Division Two side.
"That is the level we will have to step up to."
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UKIP says it will be backing Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by-election and will not be fielding a candidate against him.

The party said it admired the former Tory MP for quitting over Heathrow expansion and praised his commitment to the Brexit campaign.
Mr Goldsmith quit in protest at the government's backing for a third Heathrow runway and will contest the by-election as an independent.
The poll takes place on 1 December.
The Conservatives are not fielding a candidate against their former MP, while the Liberal Democrats have vowed to make the by-election about Brexit - which Mr Goldsmith backed - not Heathrow.
A UKIP spokesman said: "Zac Goldsmith has resigned on a matter of principle and UKIP admire him for having the courage to do so. UKIP have always believed that Gatwick was a preferred option to Heathrow."
It said party leader Nigel Farage and the ruling executive committee thought Mr Goldsmith was a "principled man, who was fully committed to helping get Britain out of the European Union" and so had decided not to put forward a candidate to challenge him.
The spokesman said the Lib Dems were committed to overturning the EU referendum result, adding: "UKIP are encouraging all of our supporters and voters to support Zac Goldsmith in his bid to become an independent MP."
Mr Goldsmith had a 23,015 majority at the 2015 general election, with the Lib Dems finishing second.
Government Chief Whip Gavin Williamson formally triggered the contest by moving the writ at the start of business in the Commons on Thursday.


Tom DeLonge has denied that he is leaving Blink 182.

According to a statement released by the other two members of the band, the singer and guitarist had left "indefinitely".
In an interview with Rolling Stone, drummer Travis Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus described complications with writing and recording a new album.
However, DeLonge posted "to all the fans, I never quit the band" on Instagram.
He continued: "I was actually on a phone call about a Blink 182 event for New York City when all these weird press releases started coming in.
"Apparently those reports were 'sanctioned' from the band. Are we dysfunctional - yes. But, Christ. #Awkward."
A poster for an upcoming Blink 182 show at an event organised by Travis Barker suggests the guitarist would be replaced by Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba.
Many of DeLonge's recent posts on Twitter consist of promotion for his other band, Angels & Airwaves, with several links to their the latest album The Dream Walker.
Last summer he performed with Blink 182 in their headline set at Reading and Leeds Festivals.
According to his bandmates, the guitarist's manager sent an e-mail which said: "Tom. Is. Out."
Mark Hoppus claimed this is identical to a message they received in 2005 when DeLonge went on hiatus before reforming in 2009 ahead of the release of the band's sixth studio album Neighborhoods in 2011.
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A man is offering a £500 reward for the return of a bracelet containing his dad's ashes which was stolen three months after he died from cancer.

Richard Moss, 39, died from a brain tumour in February. His ashes were put in silver bracelets made for his four sons.
Chavez Robinson, 21, said the bracelet was of "massive sentimental value" and had been stolen from a van in Hull.
Police said it was investigating the theft of a van.
Mr Robinson said he was "absolutely heartbroken and gutted" to find his bracelet had been stolen.
"All my brothers had identical bracelets, it's all silver with gemstones. We have it on all the time to remind us of him and so we can be closer to him," he added.
"The first time I take it off to help a friend with some work - I put it on the seat in the van - and it's gone.
"I'm so angry and upset."
Mr Robinson said he was offering the reward for its safe return after the van was reported stolen on 16 June.
"It's not like it's a normal bracelet, you can't just replace it.
"It's the ashes inside that's of value."
Mr Moss, who lived in South Ferriby, North Lincolnshire, died after he was diagnosed with three brain tumours earlier this year.
In the days before his death, he wrote a personal letter to his family telling his sons to "keep strong" and "make the most" of their lives.
Humberside Police said the van, which was parked on Victoria Gardens, near Cottingham Road, had "since been recovered" and its investigation was ongoing.


More near misses between drones and aircraft over the UK were reported in the first six months of 2016 than the whole of the previous year.

New figures show there were 34 reported near misses between January and June, compared with 29 for all of 2015.
Most were reported close to major airports including London Heathrow.
Aviation experts said the near misses were concerning, but research needs to be done to determine how much damage a drone could actually do to an aircraft.
Sion Owen Roberts, who flew manned and unmanned aircraft in the RAF but now trains people to fly small drones as Head of RUSTA, believes drones are potentially dangerous because their batteries are explosive.
"Whilst I was serving in the RAF, it was always dangerous when we accidentally hit a bird," he said.
"A bird can cause significant damage to an aircraft and the same sort of damage could occur from a drone strike, LiPo batteries are extremely volatile and you wouldn't want one disappearing down an aircraft engine."
He believes the "proliferation" of drones among the public is a "huge worry", as many people are "blissfully unaware" of how dangerous they can be.
Drones accounted for the vast majority of the 43 incidents recorded between January and June by the UK Airprox Board. An airprox is a situation in which a pilot or air traffic personnel believe the safety of an aircraft may have been compromised by the proximity of another aircraft.
Eight near misses involved A320 Airbus planes, which typically carry about 150 passengers. A further five involved the A319 model, which seats about 156.
Other planes in reported near misses involved a Boeing 737, two Boeing 738s, a Boeing 757 and a Boeing 787.
Of the 34 drone incidents, 14 happened near London Heathrow, two near Gatwick, two near Stansted and two near Manchester.
12,500ft
Highest near miss, over Heathrow in February 2016
400ft
Maximum height drones should fly
50 metres Closest drones are allowed to anyone or anything
9 Incidents reported in March 2016, the most so far in the year
Kent Law School associate lecturer Alan McKenna, a researcher on drone issues, said the new figures were likely to increase fears of a manned aircraft being brought down.
However, he said it was important to keep the fears into perspective.
"We don't have the necessary research results yet as to the dangers that relate to what will happen when drones of different sizes hit an aircraft or different parts of an aircraft," said Dr McKenna.
"Yes, we should be concerned and should be looking to identify pilots who are infringing the regulations but we need to keep a balance.
"What is very concerning is that with this rise in near misses we are still not able to identify who the drone pilots are. If you can't identify the drone pilots there is no way you are going to be able to enforce the regulations."
The first person prosecuted in the UK was Robert Knowles from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria who was fined Â£800 and ordered to pay Â£3,500 costs after admitting to flying a small unmanned surveillance aircraft within 50m of the Jubilee Bridge on the Walney channel. His drone was recovered from water near a nuclear submarine facility operated by defence company BAE Systems.
The first collision between a drone and a passenger plane was reported in April, but Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin later told MPs it was not thought to be a "drone incident".
Air accident investigators said they had not ruled out a drone but had no evidence to support the suggestion.
Click here for an interactive map of reported near misses.
Craig Lippett, chairman of ARPAS-UK, the trade association for the UK drone industry, said some of the reported near misses may not have involved drones at all.
"A lot of these encounters were at heights you are unlikely to encounter drones; there are some reports at above 7,000 or 10,000ft," he said.
"Most commercially available types have limited battery power and can probably only reach 1,500ft."
Mr Lippett said his members operate legally, professionally and safely, but he is concerned that recreational users do not understand the law.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said: "There has been an exponential rise in the number of incidents and unfortunately they are still coming in on a weekly basis.
"We work with retailers and manufacturers to educate users of drones about the risks and to remind them that it is not appropriate to fly them near airports."
The CAA warns people on its website not to fly a drone above 400ft (121.1 metres) and to always keep it within sight, otherwise they risk being fined for dangerous flying.
A Department for Transport spokeswoman add said: "Tough penalties are already in place for misuse of drones, including up to  five years' imprisonment for endangering an aircraft. We are also leading  international efforts to develop a stringent regulatory framework, working  closely with the Civil Aviation Authority, industry and airline operators.
"We will be consulting on proposals, including registration and licensing options, before a government strategy is published later this year."


A warning for snow and ice has been issued for all of Wales.

The Met Office's yellow "be aware" warning is in force until midday on Sunday, with the most frequent sleet and snow showers expected in west Wales.
Up to 2cm of snow could fall on low ground and untreated roads may be icy as temperatures drop.
Forecasters also said gusts of up to 60mph could hit exposed northern and western coasts.
There was some disruption overnight into Saturday with reports of hazardous driving conditions on the A487 and A486 around Synod Inn in Ceredigion.
There was also a heavy hailstorm and two crashes on the A40 in Carmarthen.
In Denbighshire, the A542 Horseshoe Pass reopened on Saturday morning as most of the overnight snow fell on high ground.
The latest warnings follow hazardous conditions on some mountain roads in Wales in recent days.
Several cars were left stuck in snow on the A470 in Gwynedd on Thursday on the Crimea Pass near Blaenau Ffestiniog.
In Rhydymain, Gwynedd, a 50-year-old man had to be airlifted to hospital after his car crashed in snowy conditions.
Six schools in Gwynedd and Anglesey also closed on Thursday due to the severe weather.


An Australian man acquitted of killing a woman on a Tinder date has been asked if he is "heartless" in a controversial TV interview.

New Zealand woman Warriena Wright fell to her death from Gable Tostee's balcony on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2014.
Last month, Mr Tostee was found not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
Australia's 60 Minutes programme paid him A$150,000 (Â£90,000, $115,000) for Sunday's interview, local media said.
Mr Tostee and Ms Wright had met through the dating app Tinder. Their night of drinking and consensual sex deteriorated into a drunken physical altercation that ended when he locked her on his balcony. The New Zealand tourist fell 14 floors to her death less than 30 seconds later.
The exclusive interview focused on Mr Tostee's recollection of the events and a 199-minute audio recording he made secretly on the night.
The same smartphone recording that was used in court to argue his guilt was also used to prove his innocence.
The audio reveals Mr Tostee saying: "You're lucky I haven't chucked you off my [expletive] balcony, you goddamn psycho little [expletive]."
The 30-year-old carpet layer revealed that he often recorded his nights out "just in case" something happened.
"I used to go out quite a lot drinking, I don't have the best memory when I drink," Mr Tostee said.
"It's better off having something and not needing it than needing it and not having it."
During the interview, Mr Tostee was quizzed about why he chose to lock Ms Wright on the balcony rather than eject her from his apartment.
"(The altercation) was a lot, lot closer to the balcony door, and it was wide open, and it was the logical option at the time," he said.
He also explained why he called a lawyer, rather than an ambulance or the police, immediately after Ms Wright fell.
"Nobody is trained for a situation like this. It's like being hit by lightning. There is no right or wrong way to proceed from there," he said.
"What had happened had happened, and there's nothing an ambulance could do to change that."
The reporter asked Mr Tostee if he could understand why some observers found him cold and heartless.
Mr Tostee replied: "When you put it that way, when that's all you say about a person, with no insight or explanation, you know, the media can make people think what the media wants people to think."
Mr Tostee's reported six-figure payment generated controversy in Australia before the interview.
As it aired on Sunday, social media users expressed anger at Mr Tostee's apparent lack of emotion over Ms Wright's death.
"Gable Tostee interview as bizarre as Donald Trump winning US election. Never heard of recording a night out 'just in case,'" said Cathy Anderson.
TV presenter Richard Haynes said: "Tostee is the style of bloke every dad hopes their daughter never ever, ever meets."
"Been a fan of #60minutes since I was a little girl but last night's disgusting Gable Tostee paid interview was the last straw!" tweeted Myra Rivadelo.
But others, such as David Blaney, said they found the interview compelling.
"I would say I'm surprised about the scathing #GableTostee tweets, but then again, this is Twitter, so I'm not surprised," he wrote.


A would-be "gangster" crack dealer who used aliases inspired by hit US TV series The Wire has been jailed.

Raphael Castillo, 29, from south London, registered a car and phone in the names of fictional drug kingpins Marlo Stanfield and Avon Barksdale.
When police raided his home they discovered a stash of luxury designer goods, including a Rolex worth £7,300.
He pleaded guilty to supplying heroin and crack cocaine and was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court earlier.
He also pleaded guilty to possession of criminal property.
Castillo was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, and was ordered to pay back £12,775 under the Proceeds of Crime act.
Police estimate Castillo, who was head of a London drugs ring, made £71,000 dealing from properties in Yeovil, Somerset, in 2016.
When officers raided Castillo's home in Vestry Road, Camberwell, in December, they found a Fendi backpack worth £2,500, trainers worth in excess of £1,000 and about £3,000 in cash, in addition to the Rolex.
Avon and Somerset Police said he ran a county lines drugs operation, in which urban dealers sell drugs in smaller locations, and made about £71,430.67 in total.
Det Con Richard Grierson said: "He fancied himself as a gangster figure and registered a vehicle in the name of Marlo Stanfield and a phone in the name of Avon Barksdale, both fictional drug dealers from US TV series The Wire.
"All the dealers working for this county lines operation were from London and have come to Yeovil to deal large quantities of class A drugs from rented properties."
The Wire was a long-running TV crime drama that aired in the US between 2002 and 2008 and saw Avon Barksdale and Marlo Stanfield run a drug dealing network in Baltimore.
Police said Castillo's criminal operations were "well organised" and highly "lucrative", and like the fictional character Avon Barksdale, Castillo too now faces time behind bars.


Band leader Papa Wemba will be remembered for a music style that conquered Africa, and a sense of fashion that inspired a generation of dandies.

He died aged 66 after collapsing on a busy stage behind his dancers at a late-night concert in Ivory Coast.
So ended the life of a man who helped take African pop to a global audience over more than four decades that saw spells of prison too.
"He was the icon of our culture, of our lifestyle," tweeted Kinshasa rapper Youssoupha. "This is a huge loss."
He was born Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in June 1949 in Lubefu, in what was then the Belgian Congo (now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo).
According to French broadcaster RFI (in French), he got his nickname Papa because he was his mother's eldest child. He also took the name Jules Presley later in life.
His love of song can be attributed to his mother, who was a professional "wailing woman" at funerals, AFP news agency notes in its obituary.
His father wanted him to be a journalist or lawyer, RFI writes, but, after developing his trademark high-range voice in religious choirs, he made his debut in the capital Kinshasa at the end of the 1960s.
Mixing traditional African music with Western rock, he and his successive bands - Zaiko Langa Langa, Isifi and Viva La Musica - enjoyed hit after hit, including  L'Esclave and Le Voyageur.
Shaping Congolese music in the 1970s and 1980s, he made soukous the most popular sound across Africa, and attracted international music figures like Peter Gabriel.
"I do not know if this is a loss for African music because the music does not die," said Eric Didia, a promoter of Congolese music in Ivory Coast and friend of Wemba who was at the morgue where his body was taken.
"People can listen to Papa Wemba songs in 50 years, in 100 years," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Wemba was also an actor, appearing in two films, Life Is Beautiful (1987) and Wild Games (1997).
In 2004, Wemba was convicted of people-smuggling in France and spent three months in prison.
He was found to have helped Congolese immigrants illegally obtain visas by passing them off as musicians working with him on European shows.
A Belgian court convicted him of the same crime in 2012, handing down a fine of 22,000 euros (Â£17,143; $24,690) and a suspended prison sentence of 15 months.
Wemba had also been briefly imprisoned in Kinshasa in 1976 on suspicion of having a relationship with the daughter of a general from President Mobutu Sese Seko's army.
In Kinshasa, Papa Wemba was known for his taste in clothing and headed an organisation called the Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People, or sapeurs.
Their stylish suits and fedora hats brought a touch of glamour to Central African countries marked by poverty.
Hours after the official confirmation of his death, hundreds gathered in Matonge, his neighbourhood in Kinshasa, to pay homage.
"He is our papa," Eddy Kilonda, a young man on the verge of tears, told Reuters.
"He was not only a musician. He taught us to dress properly, to be stylish."
Wemba married his wife Marie-Rose Luzolo in 1970 and they had six children


Joshua Wong, 19, is the most successful street activist in Hong Kong.

His televised arrest in September 2014 helped spark pro-democracy protests that would continue for 79 days, paralysing the heart of the city.
But they ultimately failed to win any concessions from the Chinese government on greater voting rights for the territory's residents.
Mindful of that failure, Mr Wong is stepping into an unfamiliar role: general secretary of a new political party called Demosisto.
"Street activism is not enough if we want to fight for a better future," he tells me. "We have to enter the system, create a political party and shape the political agenda, in order to drive forward our movement for self-determination."
Mr Wong recently disbanded his student activist group Scholarism to pave way for the new party.
Its first goal is to contest, and hopefully win, seats in the Legislative Council election in September.
Mr Wong himself, not yet 21, is still too young to run. Three fellow party leaders will stand for election in two districts.
The current council - whose main function is to enact or repeal laws - has 70 lawmakers, of which 27 belong to the pro-democracy camp.
One of them - Sin Chung-kai, a stalwart of the Democratic Party - has expressed concern that Mr Wong's party may "fragment" the pro-democracy vote.
"We anticipate there will be more pan-democratic candidates," he says. "But I'm afraid that won't necessarily translate into more seats elected."
Demosisto shares basic values in common with the traditional pro-democracy parties.
But it does differ on key issues: its emphasis on self-reliance and self-determination, and its insistence on a legally binding referendum allowing voters to determine Hong Kong's political future.
Demosisto is the latest political party established by Hong Kong's new breed of youth demonstrators, known as "umbrella soldiers", but it is hardly alone.
Hong Kong Indigenous, led by Ray Wong and Edward Leung, also intends to field candidates in September.
The group is best known for leading intense clashes with police in the Mong Kok district during the Chinese New Year in February.
Afterward, Mr Leung won a very respectable 15% of the vote in a closely watched by-election, despite facing a rioting charge.
Youngspiration, whose leader is Baggio Leung, is an umbrella soldier party founded last year.
One of its members succeeded in defeating a heavyweight incumbent in a closely fought district council election last year.
Another group, Civic Passion, plans to nominate candidates to run in five districts in the September election.
If they win, they have promised to resign immediately, triggering a referendum on rewriting the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution.
The most extreme among the new groups is the Hong Kong National Party, which has promised to fight for Hong Kong independence from China.
The group has received much criticism from officials in Hong Kong and Beijing, which believes its goal is illegal.
On the whole, these groups take a more aggressive, confrontational approach in their dealings with the Hong Kong and Chinese governments than traditional pro-democracy parties.
Mr Sin, the lawmaker, admits it is tough for them to attract younger supporters.
"The traditional political parties won't be able to represent the younger generation. That's why the younger generation wants to form parties of their own," he says.
He says three long-serving legislators from the Democratic Party - Emily Lau, Albert Ho and himself - will not stand for re-election in September to give younger party members a chance.
David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, believes the rise in "umbrella parties" is a direct consequence of the Chinese government's failure to respond to protesters during the 2014 protests.
"In a report to Chinese officials, I warned them that a lack of response will push groups to become more extreme, and that this could result in violence," he says.
For his part, Joshua Wong says his party rejects violence, but will continue to engage in street politics.
His journey from child activist to party leader has begun.


US cinema-goers flocked to the big screen this weekend, as Jurassic World and Pixar's Inside Out battled for box office supremacy.

Jurassic World roared into the lead with $102m (£64m), making it only the second film after The Avengers to make $100m (£63m) in two separate weekends.
Pixar's animation, which unfolds largely inside the mind of a young girl, came second with $91m (£57m).
It is the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in box office history.
The record was previously held by Avatar, which took $77m (£48m) when it debuted in 2009.
However, Inside Out's second place opening breaks Pixar's perfect run at the top of the charts. Starting with 1995's Toy Story, all 14 of the studio's previous films had opened at number one.
"Inside Out would have been number one in any other weekend," said Phil Contrino, vice president of BoxOffice.com. "At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. Being number one is overrated."
Disney - which owns the Pixar studio - noted that Frozen had also debuted at number two, before going on to become Disney's biggest-ever animated release with a global haul of nearly $1.3bn (£817m).
Inside Out was judged to be a tough sell. A genre-defying story of a girl's inner turmoil, it portrays her emotions as characters - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust - who live inside her mind.
But reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with critics praising the film's thought-provoking, emotionally-powerful script.
"This is another example of word of mouth spreading fast for a movie and people getting behind in a big way," said Contrino.
Meanwhile, Jurassic World broke another record - it is now the highest-earning film in the dinosaur franchise. It has made  $398m (£250m) in just two weeks, surpassing the $357m (£224m) made by the original Jurassic Park in 1993.
The US full box office top 10 is as follows.


Produced by Shalu Yadav, Filmed and Edited by Sanjay Ganguly

6 October 2016 Last updated at 14:16 BST
Three months after Bangladesh suffered the worst terror attack in its history,  the BBC's Justin Rowlatt and his team were the first journalists given access to the cafe.


White lines which were painted on a famous County Antrim road which featured in Game of Thrones have been removed.

They were mistakenly painted on the Bregagh Road near Armoy by a contractor who had been doing work in the area.
The iconic tunnel of trees, known as the Dark Hedges, features as the Kingsroad in the smash-hit HBO television series.
Conservationists and fans had expressed their annoyance at the error.
The Department for Regional Development (DRD) said work began on Wednesday morning to remove the white lines and was completed by lunchtime.
It is the second setback for the Dark Hedges in just over a week.
At the end of January, Storm Gertrude ripped up two of the 200-year-old beeches that overhang the road and damaged a third.
Amateur photographer Bob McCallion, who lives in the area, welcomed the removal of the lines.
"I actually called the lines sacrilege because they just shouldn't be there and I'm glad to see them gone," he said.
"It's a step forward, but there's a lot of issues here.
"The road has actually been made wider recently which is not on.
"The verges need to be restored and the road brought back to its original width.
"It affects the overall visual impact of the place doing things like this and you've got to be very careful that you look at the whole area more or less like a conservation area and try to look after it."


Champions Denver Broncos will play the Carolina Panthers on the opening day of the 2016 NFL season in a rematch of February's Super Bowl.

The two sides will meet on 8 September at Sports Authority Field in Denver.
A superb defensive display earned the Broncos a 24-10 win and their third Super Bowl in the teams' last match.
The last time a season started with the teams that contested the Super Bowl was when the Kansas City Chiefs played the Minnesota Vikings in 1970.
"I think it's great," Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. "It's a big challenge for our team. It gets our attention really quick.
"We know that we're going to have to have a really good offseason."
The New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals, who both fell a game short of Super Bowl 50, will also meet on the opening weekend at University of Phoenix Stadium.
The 17-week regular season is followed by the play-offs which are contested by 12 of the 32 teams and conclude with the Super Bowl.
For the third successive season, three games are being played in London.
Wembley will stage the Jacksonville Jaguars against the Indianapolis Colts on 2 October followed by the Cincinnati Bengals against the Washington Redskins on 30 October.
Twickenham hosts the Los Angeles Rams against the New York Giants on 23 October.
Since the first NFL game was staged at Wembley in 2007, all the teams involved in London matches have received a bye week afterwards to help them recover from their trans-Atlantic trip.
However this year, the Colts are due to host the Chicago Bears the week after playing at Wembley. The five other teams have been given the usual time off.


A new Western will show America's Wild West from a Scottish perspective.

Slow West stars Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young Scots aristocrat who goes to America to find his lost sweetheart, a crofter's daughter.
Michael Fassbender, a star of the X-Men films and new movie adaption of Shakespeare's Macbeth, also stars.
Due for release in cinemas later this year, Slow West was written and directed by John Maclean, who was a member of Scots group The Beta Band.
Maclean said the original idea for the script came from a desire to link British costume drama of the Merchant Ivory genre with the American Western.
Into that mix he also sought to incorporate the conflicts of the 19th Century's Scottish class system between lairds and tenant crofters.
Smit-McPhee plays 16-year-old Jay Cavendish, who falls in love with Rose Ross  a crofter's daughter played by South African-born New Zealander Caren Pistorius - as they grow up in the Scottish Highlands.
When Rose and her father are forced to flee to America, Jay leaves his privileged life to go in search of her and try to win her heart.
Maclean said the film was "mostly about young love".
He added: "But it is a Western seen through Scottish eyes with an outsider's perspective.
"Through Jay, we see the reality of the Wild West at a time in America where there were Germans, Irish, Scottish and Swedish all displaced from their homelands and arriving in this new land, America."
Smit-McPhee previously appeared in the US remake of vampire tale Let Me In and in last year's box office hit Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He has also been cast in 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse.
In Slow West, Fassbender plays monosyllabic frontiersman Silas.


A retired businessman extradited to the US on charges of selling weapons parts to Iran will face trial in November.

Christopher Tappin, 65, from Orpington, south-east London, has been on bail in the US since April after spending two months in a New Mexico jail.
The former president of the Kent Golf Society denies trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran.
If convicted at his trial in El Paso, Texas, due to start on 5 November, Mr Tappin could face 35 years in jail.
Mr Tappin, who was the former director of Surrey-based Brooklands International Freight Services, has claimed he was the victim of an FBI sting.
Speaking in April, he said he believed the batteries were intended for use by the automotive industry.
"I'm not a terrorist. I've never had any connections with terrorism and I'm just appalled that things could come to this sort of stage - especially in my life now, when I'm 65, been retired for four years and enjoying retirement.
"I didn't know these batteries were for Hawk missiles and too, I didn't know they were destined for Iran."
His bail conditions required him to wear an electronic tag, to surrender his passport, and to travel only to El Paso and Houston, where he has been staying with one of his lawyers.
His wife Elaine said his family was relieved a trial date had finally been set for his trial.
"Despite the much-welcomed support from friends and strangers alike, the emotional, financial and psychological impact of extradition on all the family is hard to overstate," she said.
"Whilst Chris's living conditions are immeasurably better since he was granted bail in April, we remain a family divided by 5,000 miles.
"Health, jobs, family life and cost have considerably limited the opportunity for long distance visits.
"As a result, we question the need to extradite before a country is trial-ready.
"However, we are relieved to now have a date on which we are all focused. We trust this will bring an end to this ordeal for us all."


Cardiff City's appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as manager carries an element of risk for both the Norwegian and the club's unconventional owner, Vincent Tan.

Bluebirds chairman Mehmet Dalman, who has acted out the role of diplomat, broker and pursuer of new managers in a traumatic fortnight for the Premier League newcomers, said he was like "the cat that got the cream" after securing the services of the former Manchester United striker, his first choice.
How long the smiles last depend on how quickly Solskjaer can make Cardiff supporters overcome the sense of resentment many still feel at the treatment and subsequent dismissal of the popular and successful Malky Mackay.
Grey hairs may have added a little age to the one-time "baby-faced assassin" of Old Trafford, but behind the 40-year-old's boyish mask lies a street wisdom that will serve him well in south Wales.
Tan is investing a lot - literally, if talk of a £25m January transfer fund becomes reality - in a manager who is a rookie in Premier League terms but who now carries the heavy responsibility of keeping Cardiff in the division.
At the same time, Solskjaer must also build a bridge between Tan and the many supporters who have lost faith in him.
Solskjaer had a fine reputation for his work on Manchester United's coaching team under Sir Alex Ferguson and was an instant success with Molde in Norway, winning two titles and a cup following his appointment in 2010.
Former United team-mate Gary Neville described him as "intelligent, with a studious football brain", adding that he "works his backside off".
Such has been his rise that he was previously linked with jobs at Aston Villa and Blackburn Rovers before assuming control at Cardiff.
But the task facing him now is still a journey into unknown territory, no matter how many Premier League observations he has made in recent years.
Tan and his cohorts know this appointment must succeed.
If Cardiff are relegated after the messy dismissal of Mackay, it is unlikely that the club's passionate fans will point the finger of blame in Solskjaer's direction.
The Norwegian is also taking a gamble with his own reputation, from master goalscorer, winner of six Premier League titles and scorer of a Champions League-winning goal with United in 1999 to life now as a coach and manager.
He is still in his infancy as a boss but he will know careers can be set back by one unwise choice, one unwitting step into the wrong environment.
The feeling a few days ago was that Solskjaer had gone cold on the Cardiff job after seeing what happened to Mackay and perhaps after taking soundings from trusted advisors around him.
His smile and obvious delight on Thursday put all that to rest, revealing he had spoken to Ferguson, his great mentor, before agreeing to take the job.
He was also at pains to dismiss whispers that Ferguson had suggested he should give City a wide berth.
Nevertheless, Solskjaer will surely have sought assurances against any interference from Tan in team affairs.
The Norwegian must stand or fall by his own methods, not those of his Malaysian owner, especially at this early stage of his managerial career.
He joins Steve Bruce and Mark Hughes, two other Manchester United managerial graduates, in the Premier League, as well as Ferguson's former assistant Rene Meulensteen at Fulham.
But learning from the great Scot while a player does not always guarantee unqualified success as a manager, as Roy Keane might testify.
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Solskjaer has clearly been impressed by the manner in which Dalman relayed Tan's vision for Cardiff.
After talks with Tan, the manager revealed that "communication and dialogue will be key", adding: "Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside."
The final observation may come as some relief to many Cardiff supporters who have protested about the running of their club, from the changing of shirt colours to the sacking of Mackay, which plenty found undeserved and inexplicable.
Dalman was at Solskjaer's side as he took his first steps as Cardiff manager and will hope he can now spend some time in the background after the turmoil of recent events.
He, at least, looked to be trying to hold it all together in the face of mounting odds over the Christmas period.
4 January: Newcastle (A) (FA Cup)
11 January: West Ham (H)
18 January: Manchester City (A)
28 January: Manchester United (A)
1 February: Norwich (H)
8 February: Swansea (A)
Premier League unless stated
If Dalman deserves a break, Cardiff's supporters deserve one even more.
What should have been a wonderful adventure in their first season in the Premier League has been turned into a sideshow by the broken relationship between owner and now departed manager, who guided them into the top tier.
Solskjaer's sole objective this season will be to keep Cardiff up, but he will need to make a fast start if lingering ill-feeling among supporters towards Tan about Mackay's treatment and his approach to running their club is to be diluted.
He has already made it clear he will be adopting a positive tactical approach but results will be everything and Solskjaer can expect financial backing to achieve them.
Cardiff have already been linked with Blackpool's Thomas Ince, while Jan Aage Fjortoft, former Norway striker turned pundit, has already highlighted Molde's gifted teenage midfielder Mats Moller Daehli and goalkeeper Orjan Haskjold Nyland as potential targets.
But unity on and off the pitch will be the key to the new regime's chances of success.
"I go into this with my eyes wide open," insisted Solskjaer.
He will hope his vision will include a future without the division, rancour and airing of dirty laundry that has characterised Cardiff in recent times.


UK retail sales rose at their fastest annual rate in 14 years in October, bolstered by colder weather and Halloween sales at supermarkets.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said sales volumes in October were up 7.4% from a year earlier.
On a monthly basis, sales jumped 1.9% from September - a much stronger increase than economists had forecast.
October's autumnal conditions boosted clothing sales.
Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at Capital Economics, said: "Clothing sales in particular were strong, perhaps reflecting the cooler weather prompting a re-stocking of consumers' winter wardrobes."
The ONS also said that internet sales posted the strongest growth for five years, jumping almost 27%.
"Non-store sales have surged over the last months, rising by 4.1% in September and 3.6% in October, showing no weakening in the trend away from spending on the high street to online shopping," said Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The figures suggest consumer confidence remains robust in the face of uncertainty caused by Brexit.
The pound jumped 0.3% to $1.2478 following the data, but fell against the euro.
Stronger sales were helped by falling prices. Average store prices fell by 0.7% in October 2016 compared with October 2015 and there were falls in average store price across all store types, except petrol stations, the ONS said.
However, analysts said that the era of falling prices was set to end soon at a time of weak wage growth.
Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, commented: "UK retailers enjoyed a mini-boom in October. But such spending is looking increasingly unsustainable as inflation is likely to rear its head in coming months and households are growing worried about their future finances."
Mr Tombs said retail sales growth was likely to disappoint in November as clothing sales returned to normal levels.


The Police Ombudsman is to send a file to the director of public prosecutions this month for him to decide if two former police officers should be prosecuted for a range of crimes, including conspiracy to murder.

The former Special Branch agent handlers were questioned in October about allegations made by a former UVF commander and police informer.
Gary Haggarty agreed to become a supergrass more than five years ago.
A former UVF battalion commander in north Belfast and east Antrim, Haggarty has been charged with 212 offences, including five murders.
He has made allegations of serious criminal activity against his former handlers, as well as members of the UVF.
Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire has told BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme that a file will be sent to Barra McGrory QC "within a matter of weeks".
The programme investigates why, more than five years after he signed a contract to become an assisting offender, Haggarty has still not testified in the witness box.
Spotlight has established that he has now been interviewed by the PSNI almost 1,000 times since August 2009. The process has spanned almost as many years as World War Two.
The families of victims of the UVF in north Belfast said they have had to wait too long to hear what Haggarty has to say about what happened to their loved ones, and those he says were involved.
Their concerns are shared by Baroness Nuala O'Loan, the former Police Ombudsman, who is one of two independent monitors appointed to oversee the investigation on behalf of the families.
"There is a process which has to be gone through and I understand that, but there's a difference between a year, two years and five years - it's too long for the families," she tells the programme.
The senior investigating officer, Det Ch Insp Richard Campbell, said the length of time is entirely reasonable due to the complexity of the case.
"It is one of the largest investigations that the PSNI has ever undertaken," he said.
"It covers very serious criminality, and it covers a large number of people, so it is a massive case."
But victims' families said the police do not want to see Haggarty giving evidence in court because of fears about what he might say about the former Special Branch handlers he reported to while working as an informer for both the RUC and the PSNI.
The accusation is rejected by Det Ch Insp Campbell.
"I spent the last five years determined to make sure that we do get prosecutions as a result of what Gary Haggarty says, so I completely reject any allegation that there's any effort or attempt to deliberately undermine the process - it's just not the case," he said.
The families also speak of their anger at a decision by the PSNI to remove the only four people working full time on the Haggarty case.
The move has also been criticised by Baroness O'Loan.
"I'm astonished, given the nature and complexity of this case, given the history of it," she said.
The PSNI said the four were removed as a result of dwindling resources.
Spotlight: Silence of the Supergrass will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland at 22:45 GMT on Tuesday 3 March


An advisor to the Polish President has accused the US of "absolute ignorance" in seeking to arrest Roman Polanski at the opening of a Jewish history museum.

Polanski has been wanted by US police since 1977 after fleeing the country before he could be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
US authorities contacted Polish officials as Polanski attended the museum opening in Warsaw last week.
The director was questioned by prosecutors but was not arrested.
Tomasz Nalecz, adviser to President Bronislaw Komorowski, said he felt it was inappropriate to seek the arrest of a "child of the Holocaust" in Poland during the opening of the museum, which highlights Poland's role as a safe haven for Jews for centuries before the Holocaust.
"From the point of view of Polish history," it "showed absolute ignorance", he said.
The US authorities have not yet responded to the comments.
Polish born Polanski lost his mother at Auschwitz. He survived the war by assuming a non-Jewish identity.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker who made his first films in Poland, now lives in France.
But he has been to Poland several times in recent years.
In 2010, the Polish prosecutor general said Polanski could not be extradited because under Polish law too much time had passed since the offences.
When asked about the latest attempts to arrest him in Poland, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said: "I think that Polish citizens, especially in cases of crimes whose statute of limitations have run out, should not be subject to extradition."
Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said he believed "someone on the American side really wants to bring Roman Polanski to the United States," but said "hunting" the director was not appropriate and Poland should "consider the matter closed".
Police in Los Angeles charged the director with sex offences including rape in 1977 before he accepted a plea deal, but he fled the country on the eve of his sentencing.
He has never returned to the US and did not collect his best director Oscar for The Pianist at the 2003 Academy Awards.
The director was held in Switzerland in 2009 after travelling to Zurich to pick up a prize at a film festival.
However, the extradition bid failed and he was eventually allowed to return to France.
Polanski is currently directing a stage show in Paris based on his 1967 film The Fearless Vampire Killers, but has said he wants to shoot a film on location in Poland on the condition he will not face extradition.


The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) is at its lowest for the time of year since 2001, UK-wide figures show.

Some 853,000 16- to 24-year-olds were NEET at the end of 2015, down 110,000 on the same quarter of 2014.
But the figures also show the numbers were 5,000 higher than in the summer.
City and Guilds managing director Kirstie Donnelly said it was "worrying" to see the figures "creep up after months of more positive news".
The Office of National Statistics figures date back to October to December 2001 when 833,000 young people were classified as NEET, some 12.9% of the total age-group.
At the end of last year that proportion had fallen to 11.8%.
NEET numbers reached from highs of over a million, or more than 16% of the age-group, in 2011, but have fallen consistently since.
In England, the government raised the education participation age to 17 in September 2013 and to 18 in September 2015.
So young people in England are now expected to stay in full-time education, in an apprenticeship, or in employment with training until they are 18.
The UK-wide NEET figures first dropped below the million mark, to 987,000, or 13.5% of the age group in the first quarter of 2014.
England-only figures show there were 690,000 NEETs at the end of last year, almost 100,000 fewer than in the last quarter of 2014.
This figure is the lowest since 2000 when comparable records began and the number stood at 629,000, says the government.
Skills Minister Nick Boles said the figures showed the government was delivering on its commitment to ensure all young people were either earning or learning.
"There is no room for complacency, though, and through our plans to deliver three million new apprenticeships by 2020 and our qualification reforms, we are determined to build on these excellent results," said Mr Boles.
But campaigners say the figures are still too high
"More than one in every 10 teenagers is currently locked out of a path to the future," said Ms Donnelly.
And Jenny North, policy and strategy director of Impetus PEF, which funds projects to help the most disadvantaged young people, called for more government action.
"We need to see a clear focus from government on how they will help disadvantaged young people succeed in education, and progress into sustained employment so they can fulfil their potential," said Ms North.


A nine-year-old girl killed in a horse-riding accident while out with a Gloucestershire hunt has been named locally as Bonnie Armitage.

She is understood to have been kicked by a horse while riding her pony during a ride with the Cotswold Hunt in Miserden, near Stroud, on Saturday.
Her school's head teacher described her as a "truly lovely, talented girl" and said the community was "devastated".
Police said her family and the coroner had been told of the death.
"Bonnie, the daughter of a member of our staff, was a truly lovely, talented girl who was bright, kind, compassionate, gentle and full of joy," said Andrew Nott, head of St Hugh's School near Faringdon in Oxfordshire.
"Our love, thoughts and prayers are with her parents, Nick and Polly, and siblings, Zach and Mamie, at this profoundly difficult time."
Gloucestershire Police said she suffered serious injuries and was taken by air ambulance to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where she later died.
A source told the Press Association: "My understanding is that she was riding slightly behind a bigger horse that kicked out at her pony.
"The kick caught her. It was a tragic accident."
Another said: "She is believed to have been kicked off her horse by another horse. It is an extremely sad incident."
In a statement, the joint masters of the Cotswold Hunt said: "A sense of overwhelming shock and sadness is with us all as we try to come to terms with her family's overwhelming loss and grief, and I hope that the strength of our community together with the power of our prayers and the sincerity of our condolences will be of some comfort to the family.
"In truth we find it hard to write this, as a young life lost is very, very hard to bear.
"We would also like to thank the emergency services who did their very best."


Wales have been given an additional allocation of 4,177 tickets for their Euro 2016 group games.

The Football Association of Wales (FAW) has received more than three times as many applications for Euro 2016 group matches than it has tickets.
The FAW had been keen to try and secure more tickets for fans.
Uefa have increased Wales' ticket allocation from 17,000 to 21,177 for the three Group B matches in June.
The allocation for the opening game against Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11 June has increased from 7,000 to 8,969.
Wales fans have been allocated an extra 202 tickets for the game against England in Lens on 16 June.
And an extra 2,000 tickets have been made available to Wales fans for the match against Russia in Toulouse on 20 June.
Supporters will find out by the end of February if their applications have been successful.
The deadline for gold members' ticket applications closed on Monday, 18 January.
Playing at smaller venues means Wales have a lower ticket allocation than most of the 24 teams in Euro 2016.
Northern Ireland have an allocation of 25,000 for their three group games but have received more than 50,000 ticket applications.


First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has signed a joint agreement with the governor of California committing them to work together on climate change.

She met Jerry Brown for talks in Sacramento during a five-day visit to the United States.
They discussed how the two administrations could work together to achieve the ambitions set out in the Under2 memorandum of understanding between subnational governments.
This aims to cut CO2 emissions.
Mr Brown has criticised President Trump for his executive order overturning many climate change policies introduced by President Obama.
Ms Sturgeon and Mr Brown also discussed the importance of offshore wind in tackling climate change and considered how the two governments could share knowledge and best practice in developing this technology.
The Scottish government committed to pressing ahead with plans to both set and deliver ambitious domestic measures to reduce carbon emissions and provide leadership and example in the spirit of the MoU and the historic Paris Agreement.
Following the meeting, the first minister said: "Scotland is making huge progress in delivering our climate change ambitions, but we are not complacent and there is still much to achieve.
"Today's meeting strengthened our relationship with the government of California and I'm confident we can work together to achieve the targets set out by the Under2 MoU.
"We have also offered to help the Under2 Coalition, representing over one billion people, to prepare for a major summit in 2018 which will bring together the public and private sectors, alongside NGOs, to build support and action aimed at persuading national governments to increase their efforts to tackle climate change, in what will be an important year for taking stock against progress of the Paris Agreement."
WWF's US senior vice president of climate change and energy, Lou Leonard, said: "It is good to see climate action high on the agenda of Scotland's first minister on her trip to the United States. This is a strong reminder that climate change is a priority for our allies around the world.
"Over the years, California and Scotland have inspired the world by setting bold targets and investing in a clean economy. Now both governments are looking to collectively up their game. To successfully address the climate challenge, it is essential that the leading players work together to do even more."
On Tuesday Ms Sturgeon will be giving a speech at Stanford University on Scotland's place in the world.
The Scottish Conservatives have questioned Ms Sturgeon's priorities, saying she should "get back to the day job".