"J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> writes:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-28-revealed-the-uk-governmen...

For the records: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- A wide-ranging UK government campaign was brought to bear on Ecuador to press it to hand over WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, new information reveals. Matt Kennard * Prime minister Theresa May was told in March 2018 to ‘butter up’ Ecuador’s president in order to get Assange out of Ecuadorian embassy in London * Later in the year, May’s government spent £20,000 to bring Ecuadorian officials and defence minister to UK * British foreign minister arranged Daily Mail hit piece on WikiLeaks publisher days after his eviction from the embassy * Same minister gave Ecuador’s president a plate from Buckingham Palace gift shop to ‘say thank you’ for handing over Assange * National security adviser Richard Moore, now head of MI6, was in Ecuador two weeks before Assange was expelled from embassy --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- [...] Saluti, Giovanni. P.S.: la tattica usata sfruttando il Daily Mail si chiama "character assassination" -- Giovanni Biscuolo Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché.