Julian Assange’s strange family: “For children, the father is a voice without a body”



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He does not want to talk about his love story with Julian Assange and the two children who were born while he was a refugee in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but Stella Moris, a 37-year-old lawyer of South African origin with Swedish and Spanish citizenship in her pocket, is forced to break the reservation in the hope that the existence of this family sui generis he can prevent his partner from being extradited to the United States “For him it would be a death sentence and for us something similar. My children would be left without a father and I would lose the man I love forever “ says in a long interview with Kirsty Lang published yesterday in the magazine of sunday time.

Extradition hearings will resume today after the suspension due to coronavirus and will last for four weeks but we will have to wait longer for the sentence.

If the Wikileaks founder is tried in the United States, he faces a sentence of 175 years in prison based on 18 counts following the publication on its website, between 2010 and 2011, of confidential documents, obtained illegally, about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gabriel, 3 years old, is Julian’s copy. Blue and blonde eyes open to the world picks up the phone to speak to his father, who has been locked up in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison since April 11, 2019 in south east London. A few words are said, then the child runs away. The other son, Max, 19 months old, was able to see his father for the first time in April 2019 in jail where, however, physical contact is prohibited: “For him it is just a voice without a body. It was cruel not being able to hug him.

Julian and Stella met in 2011 when she joined the legal team that was supposed to defend the activist from two rape charges in Sweden. When they got together six years later, they knew theirs was not going to be an easy relationship. Have children then! “Ours was a stable relationship – Moris explains to Times – and we wanted a family. We have taken control of our lives because no one could have interfered with this. Of course, privacy inside the embassy was reduced to the bone: cameras everywhere except the bedroom. But in the end, Stella says, theand adversity “allow you to know the true character of a person” and describes Assange as “a Renaissance man of the 21st century”, a portrait far removed from the paranoid narcissist we are used to. The two of them wanted to get married a long time ago. He asked her during a virtual reality meeting when she was pregnant with Gabriel. If they are successful, we will see.

September 6, 2020 (change September 6, 2020 | 23:51)

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