US actress turned activist Pamela Anderson said that the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, needs protection and France is the best place for him.

Axar.az reports that “Julian named the names of very influential people who will stop at nothing to discredit him, he needs protection and France would be the best place for that,” Journal Du Dimanche quoted Anderson as saying.
According to her, accusations of rape against Assange are slander. Anderson has been friends with Assange since 2014 and often visits him at the Embassy of Ecuador in London.

She noted that French presidential candidates Jean-Luc Melanchon and Marine Le Pen have said that if they win in the elections they will to grant French citizenship to Assange and to the former employee of the US National Security Agency, Edward Snowden.

Previously, Anderson called on the French people to vote for Melanchon.

The US Department of Justice is looking to prosecute WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for multiple cases of data dumping. Speaking during a news conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called Assange’s arrest a priority of the legal agency.