Former President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont has been arrested in Sardinia

The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, was arrested on the island of Sardinia where he had gone to meet mayors. The arrest was under the international arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court for sedition due to the failed independence of October 2017, court sources confirmed to The avant-garde.

The former president was to attend the assembly of Sardinian independence mayors and advisers tomorrow and meet representatives of the Sardinian parties, whom he was going to thank for their support for Catalonia’s right to self-determination.

About Puigdemont weighs a national, European and international arrest warrant accepted by Supreme Court magistrate Pablo Llarena who investigated the 2017 case.

Puigdemont left Spain just as the prosecution filed a complaint against the independence leaders for a crime of rebellion by the referendum of October 1, 2017.

The conviction ultimately established that they had committed a crime of sedition. Since, Puigdemont is persecuted by the courts. He has previously been arrested in Germany, although the courts have refused to hand him over to Spain for a crime of rebellion or sedition.

The former Catalan president had settled in Belgium, where his justice did not support his surrender to Spain to be tried.

In the last elections to the European Parliament, Puigdemont won a seat and obtained parliamentary immunity. However, last July, European justice left him without parliamentary immunity. Parliament lifted its immunity and although the EU General Court initially suspended the chamber’s deal, at the end of July it revoked its previous ruling.

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