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Puigdemont Recalls His Return to Spain a Year Ago: "I Had a Duty to Try to Avoid My Arrest"

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The leader of Junts and former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, recalled this Friday his fleeting return and subsequent flight from Spain a year ago. On August 8, 2024 and with an arrest warrant on him from the Supreme Court, Puigdemont reappeared in the center of Barcelona with the intention of attending the investiture debate of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat. However, he did not reach the Parliament. He went "vi…

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The leader of Junts and former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, recalled this Friday his fleeting return and subsequent flight from Spain a year ago. On August 8, 2024 and with an arrest warrant on him from the Supreme Court, Puigdemont reappeared in the center of Barcelona with the intention of attending the investiture debate of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat. However, he did not reach the Parliament. He went "vi…

·Madrid, Spain
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Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont believes that if a year ago he had not escaped from the Mossos d’Esquadra, after starring an appearance in the center of Barcelona, “today he would still be in prison.” The leader of Junts per Catalunya has taken advantage of the fact that one year has passed since his sudden eruption in the Arc de Triomf, the same day that Salvador Illa president of the Generalitat was invested, to justify that staging…

·Spain
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Leticia Vaquero analyzes the first anniversary of Puigdemont's escape during Salvador Illa's inauguration.

The former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, said this Friday that, if a year ago it would have been stopped...

The former president of the Generalitat takes stock of the anniversary of his fleeting visit and flight from Barcelona during the investiture of Illa

“Today he would still be in prison and probably on the verge of being tried and sentenced, because in Spain there are things and people that are above the law and its same Constitution.” This is how former President Carles Puigdemont expressed himself this Friday, when he celebrated one year of Arc de Triomf’s act, in Barcelona, in which he appeared for a few minutes, intervened from the stage in view of everyone and then vanished without being …

·Granada, Spain
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Moncloa broke the news in on Friday, August 8, 2025.
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