In lower than 24 hours, the previous Catalan Minister of Education Clara Ponsatí has returned to Barcelona, has been arrested by the mossos, has appeared earlier than a decide and has left for Brussels, the place she plans to attend the plenary session of the European Parliament that begins right this moment Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. and tomorrow, Thursday.
This Tuesday, the previous Catalan president Carles Puigdemont questioned the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and requested her to defend Ponsatí’s immunity and never “look the opposite method.” Puigdemont and fellow MEP Toni Comín dominated out returning to Catalonia shortly since, as they recalled, they’re being investigated for a criminal offense of embezzlement, which incorporates jail sentences.
Return by automotive alongside the AP-7
The former minister’s return plan has been carried out discreetly. The information broke early within the afternoon of this Tuesday when he had already arrived in Barcelona. Jordi Graupera was driving the car, who, as he defined to TV3, crossed Le Perthús at 2:00 p.m.
Ponsatí wished to cross the border on his method by way of Bajol, the identical border crossing by way of which former Republican President Lluís Companys fled in 1939 on his technique to exile. The former minister discovered the move closed and so they returned by way of the Le Perthús move, which connects with the AP-7 by way of which they reached the Catalan capital.
After her look earlier than the media, Ponsatí went for a stroll by way of the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona accompanied by journalists and print media. It was there that her arrest happened, when a police officer approached her and requested her to accompany her: “I remind you that you’re attempting to arrest an MEP,” the previous minister snapped at her after which she obtained on the police patrol that may take her to the Ciutat de Justice.
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