The "Operation Hotel" revelations in 2018 showed that the Ecuadorian government was spying on Julian Assange, who had taken refuge in the country's embassy in London at the time.
However, recently data from Spanish authorities show that in fact a US intelligence agency was behind the surveillance.
With the US currently trying to extradite Assange from his London prison to stand trial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, Assange's global story, darker than ever continues.
The following video released on 30/06/2020 is a Reportage by ARTE. It chronicles what was happening at the embassy, and shows all of Assange's meetings with various figures from the political and artistic scene.
At 16:24 you will also see Giannis Varoufakis on a visit to the Ecuadorian embassy. Of course everything is recorded on tape without the knowledge of those involved.
The creators of the video, catch the story from the beginning, starting with an event that shows what will follow.
When a journalist's meeting with Julian Assange ends, and he walks out of the embassy, a girl stops him and asks him to take a picture of his camera machine...
Watch the video (there are subtitles in English)
