[NYTIMES] The French president on Friday rejected an appeal for protection from Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks co-founder, who has spent three years under political asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
| The French have enough problems... |
Mr. Assange made the request in a 2,700-word open letter, in French, that was published Friday on the website of Le Monde and addressed to President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
Mr. Assange said he was appealing to La Belle France because he sensed an openness to the idea of being granted asylum, citing comments made by Christiane Taubira, the French justice minister, and because he had a child whose mother is French. |