(Original title: “30-åriga kvinnan: Jag utsattes för övergrepp”)

This article was published in the online edition of Aftonbladet (Sweden’s largest daily) on August 21. It was written by Jessica Balksjö. Most of it has already been quoted by a lot of English-language newspapers/websites. [URL]

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Aftonbladet has talked to one of the women behind the rape accusations made against Julian Assange. When she got in touch with a woman who told her that Assange had raped her they both went to the police.

The woman is in her 30’s and now wants to tell her story in Aftonbladet to clarify what the accusations against Assange are and to correct some of the errors that were reported in the story published by tabloid Expressen this morning.
Julian Assange met both the women during his visit in Sweden. He was at first suspected of having raped one of them, but those suspicions were ruled out by Chief Prosecutor Eva Finné, while he is still suspected of molesting/harassing the other woman.

Considers herself to have been sexually molested
The woman and Assange met during his time in Stockholm and had not previously met him nor each other.
The 30-year-old tells us that she, for her part, considers herself to have been sexually abused, or molested, but not raped.
She was contacted by another woman in her 20’s who told her Julian Assange had carried out similar abuse to her, but worse.

Gave a detailed account
Out of consideration to the ongoing police investigation, the 30-year-old does not want to reveal any more details, but she says she has given a very detailed account to the police, as has the other woman.
- I immediately believed her story since I had had a similar experience to what she was telling me, the woman tells Aftonbladet.
The both women now decided to go together to the police station to tell them what had happened.

“I don’t feel threatened”
- It’s completely wrong that we are afraid of Assange and therefore unwilling to report him, he is not violent and I don’t feel threatened by him, the woman tells Aftonbladet.
In both cases, the sex had been consensual from the start but had eventually turned into abuse.
- The other woman wanted to report for rape. I told the police my story as a witness account to her story and to support her. We are completely behind the accuracy of the information we have given, she tells Aftonbladet.

“The accusations are not staged”
The woman dismiss the many conspiratorial theories that are currently flooding the net
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- The accusations against Assange are of course not staged by neither the Pentagon or anybody else. The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl is with a man with a twisted view of woman and a problem to accept a “no”.

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