Forty parliamentarians have signed the request to debate it in the Assembly, claiming that the Australian is a “victim of judicial cruelty” from the United States.
French deputies requested on Tuesday that their country grant “political asylum” to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to avoid prosecution in the United States, which is requesting his extradition from Great Britain.
A motion for a resolution has been signed by forty parliamentarians from all sectors, to affirm that “France cannot remain silent” in the face of the fate of the Australian, “a victim of judicial cruelty, but who is actually political” by Washington .
The text was signed by many elected officials on the left, but also by the government majority and some from the more conservative right.
François Ruffin (from France Insoumise, extreme left), one of the sponsors of the initiative, urged at a press conference that “this fighter for the truth be released”; Jean Lassalle (center right) highlighted the “painful and dramatic but also exceptional” nature of his situation.
Among the signatories is also the leader of the Communist Party and presidential candidate, Fabien Roussel.
The leader of France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a candidate for the presidential elections of 2022 and a supporter of Assange, said that if he were elected, he would “make him naturalize” French.
“Only France can save Julian”, launched for his part, his father, John Shipton, who traveled expressly to Paris to thank “the help and support” of the French deputies.
The lawyer Stella Morris, with whom Assange had two children during his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, also traveled to affirm that the life of the Wikileaks founder “is in danger.”
To be debated in the Assembly session, the resolution must be registered on the agenda by the government or its majority, or for a “niche” session reserved for a minority group, but no procedure or definitive date has yet been established.
The US government is claiming the 50-year-old Australian on espionage charges and a massive leak of more than 700,000 classified documents, for which he can be sentenced to up to 175 years in prison.
He was arrested by British police in April 2019, after spending seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge when he was free on bail. He feared extradition to the United States or Sweden, who claimed him for rape, charges that have since been dropped. (I)
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