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The former president of Catalonia, Carlos Puigdemont, suffered yesterday what could be his biggest legal setback, after the German justice had decided to extradite him to Spain for alleged embezzlement.
it is final, it is a key step in the process of extradition
According to reports of the agency Efe, the Territorial Court of Schleswig-Holstein has explained in a statement that she considered "inadmissible" the request for extradition Judge Pablo Llarena of the Spanish Supreme Court, reiterating the arguments he had previously set out, in which he emphasized that the degree of violence was not "enough".
"The amount of violence planned for the crime of high treason (German equivalent to the type of Spanish rebellion) has not been reached in the clashes in Spain," says the resolution.
Neither one nor the other admits the crime of disturbing public order, which also raised the Spanish justice in case the crime of rebellion does not. was not finally admitted, alleging that Puigdemont "was not the spiritual leader of the violent actions."
The audience admitted the extradition request for embezzlement of public funds in connection with the The referendum on sovereignty on 1 October, stating that, as the Spanish Supreme Court points out, Puigdemont could have had "co-responsibility" in decisions that implied a burden on the public funds.
Temporarily released under bail, the head of independence has not yet a specific date for his transfer to Spain; In addition, his defense has already announced that he would appeal the decision to the German Constitutional Court.
Informed yesterday by the press, the Prime Minister Spanish lawyer Pedro Sánchez refused to qualify the judicial decision. Judicial decisions "are not qualified, they are respected", decided the president.
The decision raises the tension after last Monday, Sánchez held a meeting with the current regional president of Catalonia, Joaquim Torra, in which agreed to "renew the relationship".
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