The former president of Catalonia and JxCAT MEP Carles Puigdemont has confirmed that he is not going to be firstly of the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) this Monday for worry of being arrested within the occasion that the Spanish justice system points a brand new Eurowarrant towards him , after the General Court of the EU (TGUE) withdrew his European parliamentary immunity in a sentence final Wednesday and he has not obtained ensures from the European Parliament that he’ll defend his safety throughout the journey to the plenary session.
Actually, the Euroorder has not but been processed, neither is it anticipated to be within the subsequent few hours. Judge Llanera is ready for the Prosecutor’s Office to subject a report on how one can proceed. And sources from the Public Ministry guarantee NIUS that the sentence from Europe continues to be being studied and that it’s being completed with out haste. But Puigdemont has made his protest gesture regardless of the whole lot.
“We anticipated an assertive response from Parliament on our immunity from displacement, ambiguously questioned within the TGUE ruling, however all now we have obtained is that, if vital, they are going to take all obtainable measures to defend any of the immunities to which we could also be entitled in that second”, Puigdemont summarized in an announcement posted on social networks.
At these hours, I might have been touring to Strasburg to attend the @Europarl_CAT ple. We await an assertive response from the Parliament on our immunity from displacement, ambiguously questioned by the ruling of the TGUE, however all that now we have returned is that they arrive…
— krls.eth / Carles Puigdemont (@KRLS) July 10, 2023
In this fashion, the independence chief has justified that neither he nor his ex-minister and in addition MEP Toni Comín are going to go to Strasbourg, since they take into account that their immunity from displacement is undamaged even if the European Parliament has authorized the requests despatched by the investigating choose of the reason for the ‘procés’, Pablo Llarena, because the TGUE clarified in its sentence final week that such immunity isn’t “autonomous”.
On the identical day of the sentence, in a press convention from Brussels, Puigdemont and Comín introduced that they are going to enchantment the choice of the European Justice in cassation throughout the stipulated interval of two months and ten days and that they are going to request precautionary measures to attempt to quickly recuperate the immunity whereas the Court of Luxembourg decides on the deserves.
Later, they requested the president of the European establishment, Roberta Metsola, for ensures that in the event that they traveled to Strasbourg to take part within the plenary session they may not be detained in case there was a brand new arrest and give up order issued from Spain. Parliamentary sources have indicated to Europa Press that Metsola responded to the MEPs on Friday within the phrases indicated by Puigdemont in her assertion and recalling that, in any case, there isn’t a Euroorder in power.
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