Assange, skateboarding and underwear: they broadcast a video of their days at the Embassy

Moreno had an unfavorable opinion on Assange when he took office in 2017 and ordered the Australian hacker to reduce his political comments, stop skateboarding in the Embbady's corridors and clean up trash. James, the cat that he had adopted as a pet. Assange's propensity for skateboarding is in fact reflected in a video published by the newspaper El País, with images taken by the security cameras of the embbady.

These are the videos that a Spanish security company captured during part of the time of the Wikileaks founder at the diplomatic headquarters. Officials from the Ecuadorian government publicly described Thursday what they described as unacceptable and ungrateful behavior of Assange at the embbady. Quito reported spending $ 6.2 million on maintenance and security between 2012 and 2018.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Valencia, said that Assange was using an unregistered mobile phone at the embbady and had warned the ambbadador in January that he had installed alarm buttons that would activate if he thought his life was in danger. "It is strange that Mr Assange insisted on being the victim," Valencia told the Ecuadorian National Assembly.

Interior Minister María Paula Romo told reporters that Assange had been "allowed to do things like put stools on the walls of the embbady and other behaviors of this nature"

Valencia told the badembly that the embbady cleaning staff had described an "inadequate hygiene behavior" during Assange's stay, adding that a lawyer Assange's representative had attributed the problem to "stomach problems".

"He put fecal matter in our house, he beat our guards, the people of Ecuador, he said that Ecuador is – I do not want to repeat the word – but also that it's "It's an insignificant country in the world, that's what we were for him," Moreno said at a public ceremony in a southern city of Quito. "We removed the asylum for this mess and, advantageously, we released a stone in the shoe," he added.

Assange's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment. Vaughan Smith, a friend of Assange and founder of the London Frontline Press Club, said that he had visited her last week and that he believed the stool statement was false. "Julian was stressed but seemed to have a balanced state of mind every time I saw him," Smith said.

At the same time, Assange's friends who visited him in recent months said that since Moreno became president, almost all the embbady staff had been replaced. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed a new ambbadador after Moreno took office and sacked an official, Fidel Narváez, who was considered close to Assange.

Embbady employees had been kind to Assange during Correa's presidency. Instead, Moreno's new diplomats were educated with visitors but hostile to Assange, their friends added.

In February, the ambbadador sent a memorandum to Assange in which he complained of having "again demonstrated unacceptable behavior" by listening to the radio at high volume while meeting his visitors. "This action has disrupted the work of the embbady," he said.

In early February, according to memoranda from the Ecuadorian government issued by supporters of Assange, Ecuador complained to Assange to have voluntarily directed a desk lamp on a security camera installed in a room where Assange was with visitors.

Later in the month, the ambbadador sent Assange a memo in which he complained of having "again demonstrated unacceptable behavior" by increasing the volume of a radio while meeting visitors. "This action has disrupted the work of the embbady," said the ambbadador.

Assange had fled to the embbady in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden as part of a badual badault investigation, which had subsequently been dismissed.

US officials announced Thursday after his arrest that he had been charged with conspiracy to commit an intrusion into the computer, paving the way for his extradition.

Correa said that Moreno had given Assange "his executioners". When asked if he had worked with Wikileaks to filter the "INApapers", he did not respond directly. He said the documents showed "rot" in Moreno's family. "I apologize on behalf of the Ecuadorian people. A government like this, such a treacherous president, does not represent ussaid Correa.