2024-08-07 08:40:23
Former president of Catalonia and former head of Junts, Carles Puigdemontit is announced that it is promised “the journey back from exile” to be present tomorrow, Thursday, at the investiture debate of the socialist leader of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, although he could be arrested when he arrived in Catalonia.
“The Parliament of Catalonia has summoned all the deputies to the debate for the investiture of the next president of the Generalitat. I have to be there and I want to be there, that’s why I made the return trip from exile,” says Puigdemont i. video published on his social networks.
In addition, since Junts are asking citizens to come and find the former president of Catalonia. They propose that they will go towards the vicinity of the Arc de Triomphe, in Barcelona, at 9:00 am, just an hour before the start of the investment debate in the Parliament.
The former president of Catalonia, who fled from Spanish Justice after the illegal referendum of 2017, has been living in Waterloo (Belgium) for almost seven years. Puigdemont already reiterated on Saturday in an open letter published on social networks his intention to return to Catalonia and accepted that his “arrest” “would be a real possibility in a few days.”
An arrest warrant is pending against him, after the Supreme Court refused to include him among those who benefited from the amnesty law. So, the tension is maximum for this Thursday in Catalonia. As laSexta learned, the Mossos are to protect Parliament.
They believe that Puigdemont will try to enter through the main door. There will be a large security device in which the Ciutadella park will be closed so that non-accredited people do not enter. Inside sources assert that it could be the Mossos commander in charge of driving Puigdemont to the police vehicle that will take him to the courts.
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