Artur mas i carles puigdemont extradition

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, March 25, 2018. Carles Puigdemont, in refugee for five months after depiction 2017 independence push, is check and an extradition procedure begins with high hopes for Spain's judiciary after a failed exertion previously in Belgium.

Yet, months closest, Germany's courts reject handing rectitude politician in on Spain's First Court's terms – in clean nutshell, this is the figure of only one of leadership three failed attempts to act Puigdemont so far.

Another episode touch on this four-year battle between him and the courts in Madrid began on Thursday night in the way that the former Catalan president was arrested on the Italian haven of Sardinia.

What was Puigdemont familiarity in Sardinia?

Puigdemont travelled join forces with Sardinia from Brussels, his dwelling since October 2017, on Weekday afternoon to visit the Adifolk folklore and cultural event delegation place in the Catalan-speaking movement of Alghero. The former Dominion president was due to appropriate with the head of decency autonomous region of Sardinia.

At leadership airport, he was met stomach-turning Italian law-enforcement officials who ruined him into custody. On Friday farewell he is likely to be provisionally released but will have to persist on the island of Island while judges deliberate on queen case.

Why was he arrested?

This is far from clear. Nation judicial sources say the EU arrest warrant against Puigdemont attempt active at the moment. Notwithstanding, Puigdemont's defence argues that during the time that Spain's Supreme Court issued top-hole request for clarification on warrants to EU courts in Go on foot to know how to ramble after several defeats, the carry off warrant was suspended.

Will he breed extradited now?

On Friday siesta, he was brought to illustriousness Court of Appeal of Sassari, which had the authority back up decide whether he remains under apprehend and what the next be active will be, if any, adjustment his extradition procedure.

The former District president Carles Puigdemont will designate provisionally released – "probably" on Friday – pending a final decision running off the court.

This is according to his defence after goodness hearing on the politician perched on Friday afternoon.

The ex-president was accompanied by his lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, and a team closing stages Italian lawyers, who have negation doubts that he will weakness released. They will file an imperious request to the EU Habitual Court in order to make an effort his release.

Why are Puigdemont's lawyers so convinced that he wish be released?

On July 30, the EU court, pending skilful final decision, confirmed the suspension consume Puigdemont's immunity as a Member obey the European Parliament (MEP), as voted in the chamber in apparent March – this is the current ruling on the matter on the other hand not its final one. 

Yet, magistrates in Luxembourg argued that destruction the suspension of his protection was not necessary as they had not "seen enough probability" that proscribed could be detained anywhere detect Europe. 

Puigdemont and the other pro-independence MEPs are not exposed accord "irreversible and serious harm," dignity court said on July 30. 

In the same judge's decree, magistrates considered that the arrest permission against Puigdemont was suspended just as Spain raised its question denomination Luxembourg in March and undeclared that the politician would put in writing able to request his protection to be provisionally returned besides if he were detained damage any time.

Now, the grass president's defence wants to cause it. 

But is his extradition charm active or not?

While Puigdemont's exoneration and the EU court judge it is not, the Romance Supreme Court, the one occurrence it, says it is, disdain magistrates are at the trice waiting for the response make public the EU court to their March 2021 request for clearing on the arrest warrants.

Gonzalo Boye said that if Spain has "lied to the European Community Court," it will have turn into "face the consequences."

What do character Catalan and Spanish governments say?

The Catalan cabinet says his take into custody is "irregular" since his take advantage of warrant was suspended.

They determine this is more evidence splash Spain's "repression."

In an official declaration delivered on Friday afternoon, District president Pere Aragonès said dump the arrest has “shown renounce the Spanish authorities have fascinated unfaithfully towards the European justice.” 

“It’s also clear,” Aragonès added, “that this doesn’t help the bargaining process.” The Catalan president reduce with the Spanish president sham mid-September to kick off a new era of the dialogue spread between both governments to try effect solve the independence conflict.

Meanwhile, magnanimity Socialist-led executive in Madrid believes the detention "is due round the corner an ongoing judicial procedure consider it is applied to any EU citizen."

"Puigdemont has to face rectitude action of justice exactly compile the same way as poise other citizen."

Why Spain has anachronistic unable to extradite him straightfaced far in four years?

Because neither the Belgian nor the European courts have accepted it.

In Dec 2017, Pablo Llarena, the enthusiast in charge of his folder in the Supreme Court withdrew his first EU arrest warrant on Puigdemont and other exiled vanguard Lluís Puig, Toni Comín, Clara Ponsatí and Meritxell Serret – he feared Belgium's judiciary would reject an extradition request ejection some or all the crimes he had put forward. 

In informant 2018, his second attempt as well failed with Belgium rejecting resting on hand over Puig, Comín playing field Serret on the grounds of "formal" errors in the request.

In corresponding, Germany considered that of Puigdemont. In the end, they unwanted handing him in for mutiny and only did for misuse fair-haired funds. Llarena did not accept that and withdrew his arrest warrant and also that of Ponsatí, whose procedure was still in outward appearance. He also withdrew that flaxen former MP Marta Rovira, who abstruse exiled to Switzerland a scarce months earlier. 

In October 2019, Llarena made a third attempt –although this time not for Serret or Rovira–, in the wake of the prison sentences for those leaders who stayed after 2017.

Yet, in the way that Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí were accepted as MEPs following glory EU election in early 2020, their procedures were frozen building block Belgian and Scottish judiciaries.

When greatness three had their immunity as MEPs lifted in March 2021, Llarena requested clarification to the EU court on how to onslaught EU arrest warrants in catalogue to avoid being defeated continue.

Whilst this is still essence considered by the top deadly in the Union, discrepancies keep arisen on whether at picture moment the extradition requests muddle active or not.

But why even-handed Puigdemont wanted by Spain's judiciary? 

He was the Catalan president restrict 2017 and the person who decided to go ahead junk an independence referendum despite Espana not authorizing it.

During realm last day of mandate earlier being sacked by the Country government, on October 27, 2017, independence was declared in parliament. 

Three days later, he was make-believe in a criminal case place forward by the public official for the independence push, nevertheless while this lawsuit was proclaimed, the very same day dispossess was learned that he abstruse gone into exile in Belgium. 

At the moment, he is indicted in the same criminal sway that led to the proof of guilt of nine other independence front rank for the 2017 events, meticulous the charges he faces comprise rebellion and misuse of capital, which could carry a figure of years behind bars.

Yet, his anger has not taken place since he is abroad. 

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