“In the United States, a fair trial is not possible,” assures one of his French lawyers

“We know very well that in the United States a fair trial is not possible,” reacted Tuesday, March 26, Master Antoine Vey, one of Julian Assange’s lawyers, while the British justice system asked the United States in the morning for new guarantees regarding the treatment that would be reserved for the founder of Wikileaks if he were extradited . If these guarantees are not sufficient, the United Kingdom would grant the founder of Wikileaks a last resort against his extradition.

According to his lawyer, Julian Assange is “someone very weakened, who is facing a precipice before which he is regularly presented, saying from one day to the next, ‘we can put you on a plane, lock you up in a prison in which you will no longer see person'”. According to the lawyer, his health is one of the reasons which pushed the British justice system to request new guarantees.

“We expect a start from European democracies”

He believes that the American judicial system is very different from European systems, it is “much more complex and can lead to torture and the death penalty”. Master Antoine Vey believes “that in the United States, a fair trial is not possible” because “once on American soil, no one will be able to enforce the guarantees that have been given.”

“We expect a start from the European democracies, because otherwise, nothing will prevent the United States from doing what they want with it,” hopes the lawyer, who recalls that the founder of Wikileaks is “a person who has been prosecuted for almost ten years for having revealed war crimes, for having disseminated information that is true and for having done journalistic work. And, sometimes, we deplore a little that the The fate of this journalist is not more mobilizing in international public opinion.