The escaped former president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont, arrested last Thursday in Sardinia and released 24 hours later, must appear next October 4 before the Italian court that will decide on his extradition to Spain. However, the Sardinian justice has not imposed precautionary measures on him, so he is free to leave the country whenever he wants. Puigdemont has admitted that he will go to Brussels this Monday, arguing that he has an unavoidable meeting because of his MEP status. However, the records of the European Union they dismantle their masquerade: the meeting is telematic.
«I have planned monday back to Brussels, for a meeting of the foreign trade committee of which I am a member. I want and must continue my parliamentary activity because it is my responsibility“Said Puigdemont at the press conference he gave after his release, and in which he confirmed his intention to leave Sardinia in the next few hours. You will return to your Waterloo refuge.
Indeed, Puigdemont is a member of the International Trade Commission (INTA) of the European Parliament, a body that meets this Monday. The two-hour meeting will begin at a quarter to five in the afternoon. However, what Puigdemont does not explain is that this meeting is remote. Is done telematically, as a precautionary measure due to the Covid pandemic.
“The meeting will be held with the remote participation of the Members” of the Commission, admits the European Union itself in the call for the appointment. In other words, Puigdemont had no unavoidable meeting scheduled for this Monday that would force him to leave Sardinia. It is, therefore, an excuse from the former president to hasten his departure.
Puigdemont’s mistake
There are two fundamental elements to understand what has happened since the Monday 20th September for Carles Puigdemont to have been arrested four days after that date in Italy. First of all, we must review the office that the Supreme court made it to the Italian courts. Judge Pablo Llarena explains in a letter that the European Arrest and Surrender Order (OEDE) issued against Carles Puigdemont remains in force since the Oct 14, 2019 in response to his rebellious situation during the so-called trial of the process and that of the other fled.
With this EAW, the Spanish intelligence services only had to be alert to possible trips by Puigdemont outside of Belgium, a place that guarantees him residence regardless of his pending accounts with the Spanish Justice. Puigdemont already knows what it is to be arrested when leaving the Belgian country since in Germany he was captured and imprisoned in 2018 until the German courts ruled that in their laws there is no equivalence with the crime of sedition for which Llarena claims, a fundamental condition to deliver a fugitive from another country. Despite everything, and as the Supreme Court judge recalls, that order was never deactivated
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