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Former Catalan leader Puigdemont in prison in Sassari

2021-09-25T04:43:23.006Z


Arrested last night on his arrival at Alghero airport. Validation hearing at the end of the morning if not tomorrow. The judge will have to decide "whether to release him or order his extradition" in Spain (ANSA)


"It is not yet known when the validation hearing will be, which could be scheduled

for late morning today or tomorrow

, depending on when the documents arrive that the judges and I should consult".

This was said by the lawyer Agostinangelo Marras, who assists the former president of Catalonia and today MEP Carles Puigdemont before the Court of Appeal of Sassari,

arrested last night on his arrival at Alghero airport

Puigdemont was arrested by the police

on the basis of a European arrest warrant from the Spanish authorities

for crimes against national public order and security.

He is in the Sassari prison.

A decision must be made whether to release him or order his extradition

to Spain, writes the entourage of the former Catalan president in a note.  

In Alghero, the

only Italian city of Catalan culture and language

, the independence leader had to participate in a meeting with the Sardinian autonomist movement and meet the president of the region, Christian Solinas, and the president of the regional council, Michele Pais.



On

October 30, 2017

Puigdemont had expatriated to Brussels to escape arrest after the Madrid Public Prosecutor accused the entire Catalan executive of rebellion following the referendum on 1 October 2017 on the independence of Barcelona. The former president had refused to return to his homeland to testify and the Spanish authorities had issued a European arrest warrant against him which a month later the Supreme Court had withdrawn, thus allowing Puigdemont to travel to internationalize his case. without however authorizing his return to Spain.

In

March 2018

, the Spanish authorities issued a new European arrest warrant against Puigdemont, who was detained in Germany while attempting to return to Belgium from Finland.

Berlin releases him, but forbids him to leave the country.

In July, a local court in Germany refuses to extradite the former leader on charges of rebellion and withdraws the measures weighing on him.

Puigdemont returns to Belgium.

On

26 May 2019

he was elected European parliamentarian but was unable to go to Madrid to receive the official investiture, under penalty of arrest.

In fact, Spain does not consider the Catalan leader an MEP, so it does not recognize his immunity, which instead was recognized by the Strasbourg assembly on 2 June 2020.

In

March 2021

the European Parliament voted in favor of the waiver of Puigdemont's immunity and on 30 July 2021 the General Court of the European Union rejected the request for suspension of the waiver of parliamentary immunity to the former president of Catalonia and to the his former ministers Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí. "There is no reason to believe that the Belgian judicial authorities or the authorities of another Member State can execute the European arrest warrants issued against MEPs and hand them over to the Spanish authorities", ruled the EU Court.


Now the arrest in Sardinia. Attorney Boye tweeted that his client was handcuffed under an arrest warrant that would actually be "suspended".The word now passes to the judges of the Sassari Court of Appeal.

Source: ansa

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