Assange cost London police 10 million pounds

Scotland Yard spent about 10 million pounds (15,3 million dollars) to guard the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange is hiding.

Assange, who denies accusing him of having committed sexual crimes against two women in Sweden, will be arrested as soon as he leaves the embassy. Sweden is demanding his extradition.

43-year-old Julian Assange since June 2012, has been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. According to him, he fears that the Swedish authorities may extradite him to the United States, where he is threatened with more serious charges in connection with the declassification of American military documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq by the Wikileaks site.

A Wikileaks spokesman called a shameful message that the guards at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the hope of detaining Assange cost the London police 10 million pounds.

“It is a shame to see the UK government spending more money on surveillance and arrest of a political refugee than on investigating the Iraq War, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people,” said Wikileaks spokesman Kristinn Hrapnsson.

Assange himself criticized Sweden, saying that the country has a “disgraceful legal practice of detaining [a person] without charging him.”

Round the clock security

In August 2014, Assange announced that he would “soon” leave the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​where he had already spent 950 days, but he still remained within the walls of the diplomatic mission.

In November 2014, a court in Sweden refused to cancel the arrest warrant for Assange.

The courts in the UK have already decided several times that he should be extradited to Sweden.

Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy immediately after the UK Supreme Court refused to reconsider his appeal against the warrant for his extradition to Sweden.

In August 2012, Ecuador granted Assange political asylum.

He was warned by the British authorities that he would be arrested as soon as he left the territory of the embassy. For this purpose, the police guards the embassy of Ecuador around the clock, writes BBC News.