The five media directors who published the Wikileaks leaks in 2010 warn of the danger that the surrender of their co-founder to US justice could pose to journalism. “I think that his extradition and, obviously, the sentence that would follow, would be serious for press freedom,” says Sylvie Kauffmann, editor of the French newspaper Le Monde.
The five agree on the effects that the extradition of Assange would have and a sentence that could reach 175 years in prison, according to his lawyers, for the 18 infractions attributed to him.