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Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by matt4077 on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:49AM (#14374375)
It doesn't have to be "the prosecutor's ambition"–it's just an unwillingness to let someone skip a trial just by fleeing, and the precedent it would set.
Re:Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation by vidarh on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:41AM (#14374635)
That does not explain the highly unusual step of overruling another prosecutors decision that there was no case to answer, the illegal release of information to the press, nor the insistence not to interview him in the UK - something she kept up for four years before finally accepting that there is no legal basis preventing her from doing so (one of the excuses used), and finally interviewing him last year.