Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil'

The Daily Mail reports that Julian Assange seems to have yet another foe (or at least friend of a foe) watching persistently while he stays put in the Ecuadorean embassy in London: Harrod's Department Store. The Metro Police, according to Assange, have developed a relationship with the store, and are using that relationship to facilitate their full-time observation of his roosting place in the embassy. When the founder of Wikileaks says, "We have obtained documents from Harrods [saying that] police have people stationed 24 hours a day in some of the opposing buildings Harrods controls," it seems likely that those documents actually exist.

Comments

Re:Yes? And?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone who has read 'Ghosting' understands that Assange has a number of mental problems.
At this point, there is no reason to take seriously anything he says about himself, under any circumstances.

Re:Yes? And?

[ScentCone]

Assange wasn't going to prison in Sweden, he was going directly to Gitmo, without trial, or habeus.

Where - in that tween fantasy novel you're writing?

Re:jullian really should have thought harder

[lucm]

This is a story about an Australian has-been trying to get some media time by claiming that Scotland Yard has planted agents in a store in front of the embassy where he's hiding to avoid going to jail for raping two Sweden girls.

Yet someone had to mention Donald Trump.

#trump2016

Re:What is UNUSUAL

[rtb61]

This is exactly how easy it is. The individual applies for citizenship and gets it. Then is issued with a diplomatic passport. The country hosting the embassy can reject the diplomatic immunity but all they can do is expel the holder of the diplomatic passport and deny them return to the country hosting the embassy. So why is it dragging on and on and on, an extended source of embarrassment for both Sweden and the UK as seeming vassal states of the US, well, exactly that. The longer it last, the greater the pressure on Sweden and the UK to back down, otherwise their lick spittle attempts to appease the US just look more and more pathetic.

Re:What is UNUSUAL

[Coren22]

Do you often have paranoid delusions? The guy has been charged with rape, and is evading justice, why would the US have anything to say about it? If the US wanted him, they wouldn't have had Sweden try to extradite him, it would have been easier to just extradite him from the UK, as they are one of the Five Eye allies of the US.

Trying to claim that this is all an elaborate attempt to get him into the US so he can be tortured or jailed is silly. He frankly hasn't done anything worse than the Washington Post, or Greenwald has done, and there is no attempt to arrest or torture them.