The president of the Catalan Government, Pere Aragonès, and the Vice President, Jordi Puigneró, will meet this Saturday in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) with Carles Puigdemont to show him his support, after being detained on Thursday on the island by an order of the Supreme Spanish Court
, and released on Friday for Italian justice.
Puigdemont had traveled to Sardinia to participate in an international meeting organized by the Adifolk Association, along with other personalities such as the External Action Counselor of the Generalitat, Victoria Alsina.
The new detention -casual or provoked? – From Carles Puigdemont in Sardinia (Italy) adds brokenness and questions both to the European Order of Detention and Delivery processed before a Belgian Court (“Bilateral Subject” Hispanic-Belgian Judicial), as
Effects of lifting of parliamentary immunity.
The judicial swarm originates because the 30 July auto before the General Court of the EU (TG) – judicial increment lower than the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJUE) -, although it provisionally confirms the withdrawal of immunity as a respensing Puigdemont
, reserves the option of reviewing the situation if there was a new detention in a Member State other than Belgium or France – where they must carry out their eurodiputate work, in Brussels and Strasbourg -, mixing the TG the litigation preliminary in interpretation with the challenge
of the withdrawal of immunity.
An analysis of Araceli sleeves.
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The main barriers to deliver Carles Puigdemont to Spanish justice are the immunity of the Eurocámara and the thesis that Euro-orders are suspended until the EU court is pronounced on the reverse of Belgium.
There is more, although with a more favorable prognosis.
If finally italian justice concluded that nothing of the above prevents processing the European order of detention and delivery, it would be checked if the requirements are met for it.
Despite being a system based on trust between member countries, when Belgium and Germany did, their conclusion was not, at least partially.
The key to the decision would be interpreting that the facts for whom the former president pursues would also be criminal in Italy, and that, in addition, they would have a penalty greater than three years in prison.
Below that figure there is no delivery, nor if the first requirement of double incrimination is not met.
An Information by Manuel Marraco.
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The detention in Italy of Carles Puigdemont has caught by surprise in Brussels and especially in Luxembourg, headquarters of the EU Court of Justice.
The European institutions will defend their courts and, if there is a shock, the image of Spain and the Supreme would still more deteriorated information from Pablo R. Suanzes.
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The party is still at rest and it is necessary to play the second time but, even so, in the Supreme Court, they see very difficult to achieve a victory now and that the Sassari Court of Appeal (Sardinia) accesses to deliver to Spain former president of the
Generalitat Carles Puigdemont.
If after his detention in the Second Chamber of the High Court, Skeptism was installed, now it has become pessimism by being perceived as a more than real possibility that Judge de Sardinia deny again the delivery of former Catalan president to Spain.
“It was foreseeable,” they argue in reference to Puigdemont’s release this Friday without precautionary measures on Italian island.
“They have been moving freely for four years, circumstance that does not help, indicate legal sources.
An information from Angela Martialay.
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The defense of Carles Puigdemont launched yesterday in Italy the theses of the Spanish Government before the EU General Court to support its release and the refusal to execute the Euroorden.
Specifically, the statement of the State’s advocacy that the Euroorden against Carles Puigdemont had been suspended and no country could execute it.
This was held the representation of the Executive when he had to pronounce on Puigdemont’s request that he was cautiously granted to the immunity that the European Parliament had just removing him.
At least while resolving their appeal against that decision.
An information from Manuel Marraco and Gema Peñalosa.
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