‘Assange won’t come’: Swedish MPs urge end to whistleblower case

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64. Retired Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren begs to differ:

The decision to close the case was well-founded and was made by an experienced prosecutor. The decision to reopen the investigation was not well-founded, something especially unfortunate, given everything that happened afterwards. It should also be mentioned that a decision to dismiss a sex case is taken very carefully, due to all the hysteria surrounding such cases. The motto was to turn over all stones, which resulted in turning over stones that were of no interest - and all this just to minimise heat from the media.

But the investigation leaked onto the net and now anyone can read it and draw their own conclusions. And I believe that few people with any sense of evidentiary evaluation will see the case as something to not be closed. The women have been interrogated and there are no more steps to the investigation. It's highly unlikely that were Assange to be interrogated again, he'd say something that made it possible to bring the case to court. It is therefore incomprehensible what the prosecutor expects him to say. So the interrogation of Assange is completely unnecessary. The situation with Assange and the women is mostly about differences of opinion about the use of condoms. And that's not the type of dispute that's settled in our courts.

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