The Junts MEP and former Minister of Education of the Catalan Generalitat, Clara Ponsatí, was arrested this Monday morning on Borrell road in Barcelona by brokers of the Mossos d’Esquadra.
Minutes after her arrest, she herself has warned that she has “been illegally arrested once more in Barcelona” in a tweet at 11:48 a.m., barely 4 hours after reporting in the identical profile that she had returned to the Catalan capital and that she had been strolling by means of its streets, by which she said, along with the truth that “so long as we proceed right here, Catalonia will proceed to face”.
The Mossos have acted as judicial police, in compliance with the nationwide arrest warrant in opposition to Ponsatí issued by Judge Pablo Llarena, teacher within the Procés case, issued a couple of weeks in the past.
The ex-minister is prosecuted solely for disobedience, so there isn’t any room for a Euro-order that permits her to be detained in Belgium, the place she resides for her work as an MEP.
I’ve returned to be detained illegally in Barcelona.
— Clara Ponsatí (@ClaraPonsati) July 24, 2023
It is foreseeable that within the subsequent few hours or days she shall be transferred to Madrid to look earlier than the Supreme Court, earlier than being tried for the crime of disobedience, which might not indicate jail sentences however her disqualification.
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