LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police on a European warrant issued by Sweden over allegations of sex crimes including rape, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.
Swedish prosecutors issued the arrest order for the 39-year-old Australian who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of committing sexual crimes, which he denies.
Police said Assange, at the center of a row over the release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, had been arrested at about 9.30 a.m. (0930 GMT) Tuesday by appointment at a London police station under a European Arrest Warrant.
"He is accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010," London police said in a statement.
He is due to appear before City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London later Tuesday.
Is it a coincidence that Assange is arrested NOT before he dumps the documents about U.S. foreign policy onto the world but before he dumps the documents about the banking system and specifically one U.S.-based bank onto the Internet?
I think not.
The Masters of the Universe can allow the curtain to be drawn back on U.S. foreign policy.
They CANNOT allow the curtain to be drawn back on how the banskters operate.
I do have a suspicion that bank doc dumping will be taken more seriously than anything he has done before. And the attacks on him will increase. After all, bankers are the ones running the world. Country after country , as austerity measures are imposed, I hear the same nonsense - about how the peasants need to make sacrifices, but hardly anything from bankers. BBC is included in the guilty.
ReplyDeleteI agree, g3. I don't think it is an accident that he was arrested before the bank doc dump, not before the U.S. foreign policy doc dump.
ReplyDeleteThis is one batch of documents they don't want to see the light of day.