WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Germany, accusing a US Marines intelligence officer of spying on him during a Berlin computer conference.
The prosecutorâ„¢s office said in a statement on Wednesday that the federal prosecutor received the complaint a day earlier in the city of Karlsruhe.
Markus Koehler, prosecutor at the federal office, said the office would examine the complaint and then make a decision on whether to launch a probe, which could lead to a prosecution.
Assange said the surveillance occurred at the Chaos Compute Clubâ„¢s annual congress in 2009 and that it was made public when the ex-Marine testified in June this year during the military trail of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning.
In the testimony, the ex-Marine, named as Matthew H. in reports, said he targeted Assange, its German co-founder Daniel Domscheid-Berg and the French Internet activist Jeremie Zimmermann.
Assange has reportedly argued in his complaint that such intelligence activity was unlawful under German laws.
Assange is said to be willing to testify by video link from Ecuadorâ„¢s embassy in London where he has been living for almost a year.
This is the second complaint Assange has filed in two days. On September 3, he filed a criminal complaint in Sweden, regarding the Å“unlawful seizure” of WikiLeaks property in 2010, just after the group published thousands of classified US intelligence cables pertaining to the war in Afghanistan.
Swedish officials have sought to extradite him back to the country to face sexual assault charges which he denies.
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Republished from: Press TV