Tag: Carles
Justice suspends proceedings against Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont pending a European decision
Carles Puigdemont has not finished escaping a revengeful Spanish justice. Prosecuted by Madrid for sedition and embezzlement for almost four years and the abortive proclamation of the independence of Catalonia,…
A hundred people demonstrate in Perpignan in solidarity with Carles Puigdemont
Catalan activists, associations, members of civil society, mayors and elected officials of the Pyrénées-Orientales mobilized on Friday in front of the Spanish consulate in Perpignan, to denounce the arrest in…
Carles Puigdemont, the puzzle of Madrid and Barcelona
Arrested, then released. If Carles Puigdemont, the former president of Catalonia who had unilaterally declared the region’s independence in 2017, was arrested on Thursday, he has since been released from…
Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont allowed to leave Italy, his next hearing on October 4
Former Catalan separatist president Carles Puigdemont left Sassari prison in Sardinia on Friday the day after his arrest at the request of Spain, which is demanding his extradition for the…
Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont arrested in Italy
Independence MEP and ex-Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, in exile in Belgium since 2017 after Catalonia’s attempted secession the same year, was arrested Thursday in Italy, his lawyer announced. “President Puigdemont…