Was Assange essentially railroaded by a police officer who was friends with one of the accusers? That certainly appears possible:
This questioning session initially came to play a decisive role when on duty prosecutor Maria HÃ ¤ljebo Kjellstrand decided to order the arrest of Julian Assange.
HÃ ¤ljebo Kjellstrand decided that the facts reported to the police interrogation were so credible that the level of suspicion was probable cause.
How did the interrogator and the accuser--identified by rixstep.com as Krans and Ardin--come to know one another?
The police interrogator and the woman got to know each other through the Swedish social democratic party, with which both are involved.
The police interrogator has amongst other things been on the board of the HBT (homo-, bi- and transsexual) social democrats. On her homepage she has published pictures of herself together with the retired leader of the party Mona Sahlin, and the former minister Thomas Bodstrà ¶m. The same Bodstrà ¶m who together with the social democrat Claes Borgstrà ¶m runs the law firm that has been hired by the plaintiffs in the Assange-investigation.
At the same time the police interrogator has--despite participating in the criminal investigation against Assange--commented negatively about the Wikileaks founder on her facebook page.
Social networks, in fact, show a clear relationship between the two women:
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