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Assange was pulled out of his bolthole and bundled into a police van today after Ecuador dropped his asylum status.

He now faces extradition to the US after he leaked numerous sensitive documents on the War on Terror.

The Wikileaks boss has now been accused of smearing poo over the walls of the embassy in Knightsbridge.

Ecuador’s Interior Minister made the revelation as Assange appeared in court for breaching his bail over now-dropped rape allegations in Sweden.

The country’s president Lenin Moreno also accused the 47-year-old Australian of “discourteous and aggressive behaviour”.

Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, when Assange was granted asylum, branded Moreno a traitor.

Interior minister Maria Paula Romo hit back by claiming Correa had allowed Assange to get away with some unimaginable behaviour.

She said: “During his stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy, during the government of the former president Rafael Correa, they tolerated things like Mr Assange putting feces on the walls of the embassy and other types of behaviour of this kind.

"That is far removed from the minimum respect a guest should have in a country which has generously welcomed him.”

The minister did not make it clear if he had used his own poo or someone else’s – as questions were asked of the status of Assange's cat James.

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The Ecuadorian ambassador to Britain said Assange was disrespectful, "continually a problem" and interfered in elections, politics and the internal affairs of other countries.

Officers detained the scurffy-beard sporting Assange after the Ecuadorian government withdrew his asylum, blaming his "repeated violations" of "international conventions and daily-life protocols".

The Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK, Jaime Marchan, said that in the time has remained in the embassy, they have "respected every single right he has".

But listing examples of the 47-year-old's behaviour during that period, Mr Marchan said "repeatedly" interfered with the internal affairs of other countries.

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At the time Assange sought asylum in the embassy the Ecuadorian government was sympathetic to his cause, but a regime change in 2017 heralded a less supportive approach.

After 2,487 days in the embassy building in the shadow of Harrods, a bearded and long-haired Assange was finally removed - shouting and gesticulating as he was taken away in handcuffs.

Ecuadorian leader Moreno revealed how two days ago WikiLeaks "threatened the government of Ecuador", but added: "My government has nothing to fear and does not act under threats."

The 47-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday and was found guilty of breaching his bail and faces a jail sentence of up to 12 months when he is sentenced later at Crown Court.

He is also facing extradition to the US on charges of conspiring to break into a classified government computer, a charge the US Department of Justice said could attract a maximum jail sentence of five years.

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The US accuses Assange of assisting Chelsea Manning, a former US intelligence analyst, in breaking a password that helped her infiltrate Pentagon computers.

Assange was remanded in custody and will next appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on May 2 by prison video-link in relation to the extradition.

Scotland Yard said Assange was held for failing to appear in court in June 2012 and "further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10.53am after his arrival at a central London police station".

Assange, with his hair tied into a pony tail and sporting a long beard, was seen shouting and gesticulating as he was carried from the embassy in handcuffs by seven men and put into a waiting van shortly after 10am on Thursday.

UK government ministers welcomed the move with both Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeting that "no-one is above the law".

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WikiLeaks said Ecuador had acted illegally in terminating Assange's political asylum "in violation of international law".

Australian Assange came to prominence after WikiLeaks began releasing hundreds of thousands of classified US diplomatic cables.

But in 2010 an arrest warrant was issued for him for two separate allegations, one of rape and one of molestation, after he visited Sweden for a speaking trip.

Assange launched a legal battle against extradition to Sweden from the UK but when that failed he entered the embassy, requesting political asylum.

Assange refused to leave, claiming he would be extradited to the US for questioning over the activities of WikiLeaks if he did so.

Additional reporting by Gerard Couzens.