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This Was Puigdemont's Escape a Year Ago: From a Brief Speech to a Televised Disappearance to Thousands of People

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Exactly one year ago Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain. He did so before much expectation, in broad daylight and with a Mossos d'Esquadra device prepared to stop him. However, the leader of Junts and former president of the Generalitat, who has been evading justice for eight years, managed to escape in front of thousands of people and hundreds of television cameras. A leak that no one considered as an option when Puigdemont announced his retur…

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August 8, the day of two interlocking events in Catalonia: the return and subsequent escape of Carles Puigdemont to 600 Mossos agents and the investiture of Salvador Illa...

·Madrid, Spain
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Carles Puigdemont recalled, in a long paper published in X, that today marks one year of the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat de Cataluña and, also, of his appearance in the center of Barcelona and subsequent escape, without a single police force preventing him even though a judicial arrest warrant fell on him, and he continues to do so. According to the leader of Junts, if he had been arrested on August 8, 2024, he w…

·Spain
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Exactly one year ago Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain. He did so before much expectation, in broad daylight and with a Mossos d'Esquadra device prepared to stop him. However, the leader of Junts and former president of the Generalitat, who has been evading justice for eight years, managed to escape in front of thousands of people and hundreds of television cameras. A leak that no one considered as an option when Puigdemont announced his retur…

·Madrid, Spain
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In the center of coordination of the Mossos d’Esquadra ­—a room with all the high command of the body involved in the security of the investiture of Salvador Illa and the announced return of Carles Puigdemont—the escape of the former president of the Generalitat was lived among shouts, astonishment and paralysis. With an arrest warrant in force issued by the Supreme Court, and almost seven years of playing cat and mouse, the former Catalan presi…

·Spain
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These days marks the first anniversary of the express entry and departure of the former President of the Generalitat and fugitive of the Spanish Justice Carles Puigdemont. A fact that served to humiliate the Mossos d’Esquadra and revealed the supposed implications of the Ministry of the Interior led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, criticized by the police forces for this fact and especially by JUPOL, the majority union of the National Police.

Unions criticize that police commanders acted negligently by not foreseeing Puigdemont's second escape

·Madrid, Spain
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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Friday, August 8, 2025.
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