Puigdemont in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​the former leader of Catalan independence returns to the city: the police stopped the arrest operation after three hours

Barcelona, ​​August 8, 2024. Within the Catalan regional parliament, the deposit of the a new ruler. The socialist takes the floor Salvador Illa. He immediately promises to rule for everyone and not to “destroy anything”. He says: «I am coming to pick it up. I find myself in a better country than the one you (Pere Aragonès, until now the president of Catalonia) found at the beginning of your mandate.”

Silence reigns within the Parliament. Outside, however, a political and legal earthquake could break out. After almost seven years (2475 days) Carles Puigdemont is back The former pro-independence president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts per Catalunya, who fled into exile after the failed secession attempt in 2017 following the illegal referendum for non- Spain’s independence, speaking to thousands of supporters in a flash rally.

Among the praise he remembers: “We have no right to refuse, because the right to self-determination belongs to the people.”. And again: “They have been persecuting us for seven years for wanting to listen to the voice of the people of Catalonia, for years since the beginning of a very harsh repression”. “They have turned Catalan into something suspicious. But we’re still here because we don’t have the right to give up.” Then he insists: “We’re not interested in staying in a country where amnesty laws don’t work.”

Puigdemont finishes his speech and leaves. He is aware that he could be arrested at any time. It is still in effect guarantee. Los Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) has become involved for three and a half hours Jaula operation. More than 300 agents are looking for him everywhere. They blocked some streets of the city. There a cagethe cage, used for block within the country vice president of the Community. One of the Mossos has been arrested because he was involved in the escape of the head of the Junts, he says Farewell to himYes. He would be the owner of the vehicle that investigators believe the president of Catalonia used to escape.

It’s like August 8th earth day. The situation as it is in 1-O, denies the national police union Jupol. That 1 October 2017, on the sidelines of the celebration of the illegal referendum, among the people who reconciled with Puigdemont, some Mossos supported the independence leader instead of distancing themselves from him.

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