The former president of the Generalitat and MEP of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, and MEP Toni Comin have denounced this Tuesday the “unlawful” detention of the previous minister and MEP Clara Ponsatí, upon her arrival in Barcelona, after accusing Spain of violating her parliamentary immunity .
“An individual who enjoys immunity can’t be detained besides in flagrante delicto, which isn’t the case, and subsequently Spain has violated the immunity of a MEP and now we hope that the president of the European Parliament doesn’t do what she all the time does, which is to look to the opposite facet or agree with them”, Puigdemont stated in statements to the press from the European Parliament in Brussels.
Ponsatí has returned to Spain this Tuesday after residing the final 5 years between Scotland and Belgium, the place she resides as an MEP, with out turning herself in to the authorities regardless of being prosecuted for a criminal offense of disobedience for the independence referendum on October 1, 2017 and weighs towards she a warrant for his arrest and launch.