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Police drop guard on Julian Assange at Ecuadorian embassy

Police drop guard on Julian Assange at Ecuadorian embassy
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London’s Metropolitan police will no longer be stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy to catch Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed

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London’s Metropolitan police will no longer be stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy to catch Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed up inside since 2012.

Police have been on guard since he sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape allegation which he denies.

The cost of the police operation is estimated at around 15 million euros.

But the Met said the operation to arrest him would continue.

Background to today's breaking Assange police siege news: https://t.co/Mb6gXlz7QS pic.twitter.com/7QgrpcC9ZX

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) 12. Oktober 2015

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