Journalist Who Falsely Accused Assange Of Rape Arrested For Raping Children

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Journalist who called Julian Assange a rapist has been arrested on pedophilia charges

A Swedish journalist who falsely accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of ‘rape’ has been arrested after he was caught raping underage girls.  

The allegations against Fredrik Virtanen emerged as part of the #MeToo social media campaign. Several women came forward alleging that Virtanen raped them when they were just 14-years-old.

Rt.com reports:  The first accusation against Virtanen was made by Swedish feminist activist, journalist and actress Cissi Wallin, who claimed last week that Virtanen raped her back in 2006, when she was 21. In 2010, Wallin said an “older media man with power” had sexually assaulted her and wanted to push his genitals into her mouth, but did not give his name, Nyheter24 reported.

“I cannot be quiet anymore,” Wallin said in her Instagram post. The journalist added that she should “have screamed his name long ago,”but was silent as the journalist’s representative called her “bosses and so on, and dubbed me a ‘crazy mythomaniac.’”

Virtanen himself was a critic of Assange over rape charges, which were subsequently dropped. But before the case was abandoned, the journalist had referred to the whistleblower as “criminal” and said he seemed to become “more and more cracked,” according to Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR).

Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg voiced her support to Wallin and said she was ashamed that she had also been silent for years over many other testimonies against Virtanen.

“Cissi is not alone, I’ve heard from so many others about the same man. For years. Still silence,” Läckberg wrote on Instagram.

Following the posts several more cases came into light, claiming that the journalist sexually assaulted 14, 16 and 19-year-old victims.

Fridah Jönsson who runs a podcast on contraception, stepped up to support Wallin’s accusations against Virtanen. Jönsson said that Virtanen asked if she wanted to lie with him when she was just 14, as she wrote him on Facebook. The woman attached the screenshot of the message to her Instagram post.

Swedish media reported about two more women, who claimed that the journalist raped or sexually assaulted them. One of them, now a 26-year-old woman, said that 10 years ago Virtanen was trying to force her to go to his apartment and to drink alcohol, despite being just 16. Another testimony reportedly says that Virtanen tried to rape a 19-year-old woman in the southern Swedish city of Eskilstuna 17 years ago, according to Samhällsnytt website.

As the story emerged, the #virtanengate hashtag has begun spreading on social media, with some users accusing Swedish mainstream media of being silent over the scandal.

Meanwhile, Aftonbladet has launched an internal investigation, Swedish SVT reports citing the newspaper’s chief editor Sofia Olsson Olsén. She also said their employee has taken a timeout in the wake of the scandal.

2 Comments

  1. See the pattern with this filth?
    Whatever they accuse you of
    Is what they are doing

    Yet Assange remains trapped in an embassy

    • Exactly, exactly, exactly. It is a Saul Alinsky tactic, and is classic PROJECTION. It’s WHAT they DO….

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