They seized the affairs of Assange | The prosecutor …

The Swedish prosecutor's office yesterday filed a request for arrest of Julian Assange, already incarcerated in the UK, so that a court can issue a European arrest warrant for an alleged rape committed in Stockholm in 2010. .

"I ask the court to arrest Assange in absentia on charges of rape," an badistant prosecutor, Eva Marie Persson, said in a statement issued a week after the reopening of the WikiLeaks founder's investigation , arrested April 11 at the Embbady. Ecuadorian in London. Stopping a person in absentia is a standard mechanism of the Swedish legal system if the suspect is out of the country or can not be found. The prosecution said it was preparing the petition with the provincial court of Uppsala, which was to decide on the detention during a hearing whose date has not yet been fixed. "If the court decides to arrest him, I will issue a European arrest warrant," added Persson.

The Australian hacker, jailed for seven years at the Embbady of Ecuador in London to prevent British authorities from extraditing him to Sweden, was arrested on April 11 at the legation after the withdrawal of the support from the Ecuadorian authorities. On 1 May, a London court sentenced Assange to 50 weeks in prison for violating the conditions of his probation.

The Swedish justice investigation is linked to an alleged case of badual abuse occurred in 2010 between Assange and a Swede whom he met at a conference in Stockholm. Assange has always denied this accusation of rape. The Swedish authorities have suspended the investigation into this case in 2017, after the prosecutor Marianne Ny acknowledged that they could not continue the investigation because Assange had been locked up at the embbady of Ecuador in the UK and had no access to it. However, the Swedish prosecutor's office reopened the case on May 13 after the arrest of the WikiLeaks founder in London.

Yesterday, at the request of the United States, the Ecuadorian authorities proceeded to the identification and seizure of property Assange in his embbady. "Lenin Moreno, traitor, thief!", Shouted a dozen protesters at the gates of the legation, waving banners bearing the inscription "Protect Freedom of Expression and Information" and "Free Assange, do not extradite him to the United States. " Assange is the subject of a request for extradition to the United States, where he is under investigation for conspiracy to commit a computer intrusion.