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Brussels, Madrid, Barcelona – Former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont has returned from Germany to Belgium and wants to continue fighting for the independence of his native region. "It will not be my last stop, it is not the end of my trip," said Puigdemont at a press conference in Brussels on Saturday
It would go until after our continent to do just cause Puigdemont, who also gave the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez "homework" for the summer holidays. Sanchez can not hope to become prime minister with separatist votes and then recharge accordingly.
Sanchez's "grace period" is over, according to Puigdemont. It now needs to promote a qualitative dialogue with Catalonia for parliamentary support. "We are waiting for Sanchez's recipe to solve a problem that Sanchez himself considers a political problem," Puigdemont explains. Quim Torra, current head of the Catalan regional government, who accompanied Puigdemont to Brussels at the press conference, said that "Sanchez's words of dialogue must now be followed by actions".
Sanchez replaces conservative predecessor Mariano Rajoy successfully with a motion of censure in the Parliament of Madrid with the necessary votes of the separatist PDeCat party of Puigdemont. The former Catalan regional president asked Sanchez to pay him compensation.
Before the press conference in Brussels, Puigdemont met with representatives of the Catalan government and former cabinet members who are also exiled. In the afternoon, he is expected at a reception ceremony in Waterloo outside Brussels. At the Battle of Waterloo, the French Emperor Napoleon was defeated in 1815 by a European coalition. Puigdemont lives there in a majestic villa. He wants to make the "House of the Republic" the starting point of a pan-European fight for the independence of Catalonia.
Return announced Wednesday
The 55-year-old man announced his return to Belgium Wednesday in Berlin. Puigdemont is in the sights of the Spanish judiciary as the organizer of the plebiscite on the independence of Catalonia from last October. Despite the police violence, thousands of Catalans voted in the referendum. Ninety percent accepted the proclamation of a Republic of Catalonia at the end of the month. The central Spanish government then declared Puigdemont and his government deposed.
The Spanish courts tried to arrest him and Puigdemont escaped into exile in Brussels. In March he was arrested while he was crossing Schleswig-Holstein under an international arrest warrant. Since then, the complicated judicial process is pending extradition to Spain
The legal suspension ended a few days ago when the Supreme Court of Madrid withdrew the warrant for arrest against Catalan extradition and gave up. He justified the decision of the German court to declare extradition admissible only on charges of embezzlement of public funds and not for rebellion in connection with the referendum.
Puigdemont would only have his trouble in his home country because of the lower charges can be brought to justice. The charge of rebellion has up to 25 years in prison in Spain. (APA / AFP / Reuters)
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