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Fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont evades arrest after speech in Barcelona

  • August 8, 2024



Fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont evades arrest after speech in Barcelona

Carles Puigdemont has evaded arrest after making a speech in Barcelona to a large crowd. Spanish authorities put out an arrest warrant for the fugitive former Catalan separatist leader in 2017 after he attempted to organise an independence referendum.
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He was seen walking the streets of Barcelona before his speech on Thursday. Puigdemont said: ‘Today many thought they’d be celebrating my arrest, and thought that this punishment would dissuade us, and you.’ He added: ‘Well, they are wrong.’

A spokesperson for the Catalan police said one officer had been arrested in connection with Puigdemont’s escape

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46 comments

  18. The relevant piece of news yesterday was that Catalonia appointed a new, unionist president as a result of an election a few weeks ago in which a considerable number of Catalans acknowledged the fact that they had been fooled in 2017 when 'independence' was proclaimed without any hint of legal or moral legitimacy (remember that pro-independent parties had received only 47% of votes in a recent regional election). Puigdemont is just an utterly dishonest and cowardly far-right leader like Farage.

  19. He has not been arrested because the Police officers knowingly did not obey orders to arrest him. That means that a large part of the law enforcement is pro-independence and would even risk loosing their jobs for this. And being non-Spanish I'm neutral to this Independence subject but I'm saying it from an objective point of view.

  21. In these times of unity of states, it’s ridigulous , beeing a province of Spain, to want to be an independent state. In a way you could treat it as high treason.

  27. He didn't escape arrest. The police let him walk away. I live in Barcelona, I can atest that the people love him. But they will never get thier independence. Madrid is never going to give up the port, tourism capital, or anything else in Calatlonia.

  29. They're so funny the Spaniards. This people from Spain, they have a criminal on the run who do and talk and do whatever he want the police don't have no respect. People don't have no respect for the police. The police is so funny in Spain, I live in Spain for 9 years, not compare with California a united state. You respect the police, the police is supposed to be respectful. Torch, everybody and everybody supposed to be respectful to the police forces here in this country in Spain. They laugh of every police officer.

  32. Carles Puigdemont evades again from Police, from democracy; he run away from his own promises and away from what the Catalan citizens have voted the last decades. He ignored his own legal plebiscite. He is just a dictator that hates coherence, democracy, history, his colleagues or Catalan citizens.

  35. Spain's Judiciary is corrupt.They are a leftover from Franco. I'm so glad Puigdemont addressed his people and had the last word …. and that he escaped and lives in the Freedom he deserves. Catalonia's day will come. Puigdemont and his fellow elected representatives have done their duty.

  38. Fugitive Catalan leader? No. He is exiled in Belgium, a full democratic European country, to avoid being arrested by Francoists (Spanish religious-fascists made by dictator Franco) magistrates who hate EU law, UN resolutions, and Human Rights covenants.

  41. Did anyone ask the Brits for their opinion. Mind your own business, deal with your own politicians and the brexit! There’s nothing worse that believing you are right until someone walks in your back and marks a gol!

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