Spain's Supreme Court Refuses to Apply Amnesty to Catalan Puigdemont
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Spain's Supreme Court refuses to apply amnesty to Catalan Puigdemont
Puigdemont, who fled to Belgium to avoid detention after the referendum and is still the target of an arrest warrant, has been accused of misusing public money to organise the 2017 independence referendum.
The Spanish Supreme maintains the refusal of amnesty to Carles Puidgemont on account of the accusation of peculate that he is targeted, in what they consider "personal benefit of a heritage character".
The Supreme has refused to apply the amnesty to the former Catalan president and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, and maintains the order to stop him. According to a car, the investigating magistrate of the ‘procese’, Pablo Llarena, has not agreed to lift the national arrest warrant against Puigdemont, who is currently being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement in the Catalan independence process.Llarena ... Continue reading “The Supreme refus…
The judge of the Supreme Court Pablo Llarena has rejected the request of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to apply the amnesty to the crime of embezzlement, following the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (TJU), pending what happens with the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC).This decision was foreseeable given that Llarena what he is waiting for is the sentence adopted by the court of guarantees on the am…
He argues that "the possible amnesty of accounting responsibility does not amount to an absolution" of embezzlement and that we must wait for the CT. More information: The TC rapporteur defends the Supreme's decision not to amnestiate Puigdemont: "His interpretation is not capricious"
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