Wikileaks grundare Julian Assange eftersökt för våldtäkt i Sverige

18] Recently, a group of journalists of one main Swedish daily, Aftonbladet, discussed in a panel at Aftonbladet-TV around current legal situations of the Assange case, amid a series of xenophobic or even racist formulations. [11]

Journalist Oisín Cantwell opens by characterizing Assange’s legal defence from London as ”so weird, that it is not comparable with anything. In the first place, not all the lawyers are Swedish, but he has also a Spanish lawyer too [Baltazar Garzón]. Remember that [Garzón] tried to indict Pinochet and became world-famous for it. He has his fingers on this too, and it shown that he is a populist of a never-seen sorts”. [12]

The Aftonbladet panel goes on advertising that the risk for an extradition of Assange to the U.S. practically does not exist. The chances for it being ”microscopic”, says Lena Mellin. And Cantwell adds that an extradition from Sweden to the U.S: would require such strong reasons, ”I don’t believe that Sweden does it”. The journalist also added that in Sweden it is the Supreme Court that decides those matters.

But Oisín Cantwell is utterly wrong about those items.

For the first, he seems to ignore in the context the secret extraordinary renditions conducted by the Swedish secret services, in collaboration with the CIA, and authorized by the Swedish government. Most notably, the wide-known case of the refugees transported from Bromma airport in Stockholm to be tortured in Egypt. [15]

Secondly, it is not the Supreme Court that has the ultimate word on issues of extradition; it is the government. Hence, the decision is conclusively political and not purely juridical. [16]

Finally, data regarding the praxis of extraditions by Sweden to the U.S. reveal that during the last decenniums all of these requests for extradition has been granted by the Swedish government, in cases in which the individual in question has been localized in Swedish territory. [17]

In the same journalist-panel, Lena Mellin utters, and ”how shall [Assange] earn his living after he gets out from there”?

Oisín Cantwell replies: ”It’s over with him. Gone from Internet-generation, Jagger [?], rebel, exposes war crimes, whatever. He is just ridiculous”.

Lena Mellin rebuts: “Believable, he shall go to schooling himself by the Swedish migrants [beggars] from Romania”.

– “That’s a good advice”, says finally the moderator of the panel, Karin Magnusson, and everybody in the panel end laughing mildly. [18]

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[18] Swedish transcription:

Lena Mellin – ”Hur skall han [Assange] försörja sig när han ska komma ut därifrån”

Oisín Catwell – ”Han är kört, gått från internetgenerationen, Jagger, rebell, avslöjar krigsförbrytelser, whatever- Så är han är bara löjeväckande.”

Lena Mellin – ”Tror han ska gå till skolan hos svenska romerna”.

Karin Magnusson – “Bra tips”

[Alla skrattar].