Catalan Separatist Leader Heads For Belgium After Evading Arrest in Spain

Published on August 10, 2024

Catalonian separatist leader Carles Puigdemont was bound for Belgium on Friday, having evaded Spanish police after speaking at a rally in Barcelona despite a warrant out for his arrest. Jordi Turull, general secretary of the pro-Catalan independence party Junts per Catalunya (Junts), which means “Together for Catalonia,” told RAC1 radio that he didn’t know whether Puigdemont had yet reached Waterloo, where he has lived in self-imposed exile since leading a failed bid for the region’s secession in 2017. Puigdemont’s brief appearance in his home country and subsequent escape has angered conservative opponents already upset about Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s amnesty deal for secessionists in exchange for their support of his minority government....

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