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The Spanish judge Pablo Llarena took this decision after the German court decided to authorize the extradition of Puigdemont to Spain on the basis of misappropriation of funds and not of a rebellion of 25 years of imprisonment [19659002]
In this judgment, made public on Thursday by the Supreme Court, the judge says that he refuses to extradite the former Catalan president because of embezzlement and withdrawing the European and international arrest warrants issued on behalf of these six Catalan rulers
More specifically, these separatists are now free to move freely abroad without risking to be arrested and extradited. Instead, they will be imprisoned when they return to Spain, where the arrest warrant is still in effect
In a post posted on Twitter, the former Catalan president has stated that the decision was "the demonstration of the immense weakness" of the case of Judge Llarena
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His successor to the regional executive head Quim Torra hailed a "new political and judicial victory."
In addition to Puigdemont, who is currently in Germany, where he was arrested in early March, this decision targets four former members of the Catalan government – Toni Comin, Lluis Puig, Meritxell Serret, who fled Belgium and Clara Ponsati, who lives in Scotland – and Marta Rovira, leader of the leftist separatist party ERC, who is in Switzerland.
Uncertainty persists on the procedure. Judge Llarena has already withdrawn a first international arrest warrant against these separatists in December, after which he reactivated it at the end of March
"We welcome this announcement, but we must remain cautious until The Spanish government will guarantee that it is the end of the business, "said Aamer Anwar, Clara Ponsati's attorney.
The separatist separatist Nicola Sturgeon described as "very good news" the end of the arrest warrant issued in the name of Clara Ponsati. "Political differences must be resolved democratically, not in court," she said on Twitter
AFP contact, one of Carles Puigdemont's lawyers, Gonzalo Boye, is congratulated withdrawal of warrants
19659002] "We are very satisfied," he said, acknowledging that the record of the trial of Judge Llarena "does not fit into democratic systems". "It does not make sense that the facts are not crimes in the rest of Europe and are in Spain," he added, referring to the charge of rebellion .
The German courts ruled that this allegation was inadmissible in German law, because Puigdemont "is not the spiritual leader of the violence" and because these "violence" (which took place in October "were not of sufficient magnitude" to justify such lawsuits.
Judge Llarena appealed the decision of the German court on Thursday, arguing that he should "limit himself to checking whether the facts presented by the Spanish courts could be criminalized in Germany" instead of look for the German equivalent of the rebellion.
From the beginning of this case, this indictment seemed to be the weak point of the Spanish judge's case for the extradition of the former Catalan leader, in the context where, including in Spain, the accusation of rebellion is discussed.
"New international ridicule for Llarena and Spanish justice", Twitter ERC's Sergi Sabria published
A total of 25 Catalan separatist leaders are indicted in Spain because of the role that they played in the secession attempt
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