Puigdemont: “I cannot return handcuffed or surrendered earlier than a Spanish choose to be lenient”

Carles Puigdemont in a file imageEuropa Press

Puigdemont’s first response after Judge Llarena’s resolution

The former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont has assured this Thursday that he’ll combat to have the ability to return free and that he is not going to achieve this “neither handcuffed nor surrendered earlier than a Spanish choose to be lenient”, in an implicit allusion to Justice of the Peace Pablo Llarena.

He stated this in a telematic message after the Supreme Court (TS) Justice of the Peace eradicated the crime of sedition from the prosecution towards the previous Catalan president however stored it for the crimes of disobedience and embezzlement.

Given this, Puigdemont has pressured that he needs to “combat the European battle to the top”, regardless of admitting that it might not have the anticipated end result.