This kind of snark is obnoxious and never adds anything.
I'm generally a huge fan of European police and think they often don’t get enough credit for the work they do.
That said, in this particular case there is a number of red flags for me, e.g.:
- generally Scandinavian police won't go to these lengths for cases like this. Why this time?
- why wouldn't they even meet him in the embassy until their deadlines started approaching? If I was trying to sort a case big enough to require extradition requests then flying to London to interview would be a no-brainer.
See: Martha Stewart. Trotsky. Etc...
I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.