The Junts MEP, Clara Ponsatí, has been launched after giving a press release earlier than the Barcelona Guard Court after being arrested this Monday by the Mossos within the Catalan capital. The former Minister of Junts has not responded to any of the questions despatched by the Supreme Court Justice of the Peace, Pablo Llarena, on the advice of her lawyer, Gonzalo Boye.
Llarena has ordered the discharge of the MEP after giving a press release earlier than the obligation choose in Barcelona. The Supreme Court Justice of the Peace issued an arrest warrant for the previous Catalan minister after she failed to look earlier than the Supreme Court on April 24.
Llarena has ordered the assertion to be taken by the obligation choose and has connected to his order an inventory of the questions addressed to Ponsatí on this process. Next, he provides, the detainee should then be launched, rescinding the arrest warrant agreed on her day.
Judge Llarena has made the choice “contemplating that the defendant’s reluctance to undergo the unavoidable investigative assertion invalidates any try to subpoena that seeks to attain her look in freedom “, but in addition contemplating that the police conduction to the Supreme Court would imply an extension of her deprivation of liberty for a criminal offense – presently she is just accused of disobedience – for which no penalties of this nature are foreseen.
Appearance earlier than the Supreme Court
Ponsatí had been summoned to inform her of her prosecution for a criminal offense of disobedience in the reason for the method however she didn’t seem, nor did she current justification that exempted her from the appointment.
The teacher of the method, Justice of the Peace Llarena, issued a nationwide arrest warrant in opposition to Ponsatí in July for disobedience. After the lack of her immunity as a member of the European Parliament, this Monday she introduced her return to Barcelona, in a transparent problem in opposition to Llarena: “As lengthy as we proceed right here, Catalonia will proceed to face”, she tweeted. Hours later, she introduced her “unlawful” detention.
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