The former leader of Scotland has been charged with 9 sexual assaults and 2 attempted rapes

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• Alex Salmond has been charged with nine counts of sexual assault and two counts of attempted rape.
• The former first minister of Scotland was also charged with two counts of indecent assault and one count of breach of the peace.
• He the Scottish leader from 2007 to 2014, and resigned after failing to persuade Scotland to vote for independence in a nationwide referendum.
• Salmond said outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday that he was "innocent of any criminality" and said he would fight the charges in court.
• Salmond was under investigation by Police Scotland over allegations of sexual harassment, which he denied.

Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and two counts of attempted rape.

Salmond faces 14 charges in total, including two counts of indecent assault and one count of breach of the peace, the BBC reported. Salmond was the leader of the Scottish National Party for more than 20 years. Perhaps more than any other figure, he was the protagonist who won the right to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in 2014, and he pulled Scotland to the brink of going it alone. (The Scots ultimately voted to stay within the United Kingdom.) 

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