Sassari's pg Gabriella Pintus asked the Court of Appeal to suspend the extradition proceedings against Carles Puigdemont, the former president of Catalonia targeted by Spanish justice for the 2017 independence referendum, arrested in Alghero in recent days and then released just waiting for today's hearing.
Pintus urged the stop at the college chaired by the magistrate Salvatore Marinaro on the basis of the need to await the definition of the pending procedure relating to immunity and the preliminary question under consideration by the European Court of Justice.
The defense board of Puigdemont was also associated with the request of the pg, assisted by the lawyer Agostinangelo Marras.
Meanwhile, we learn that the Spanish judge Pablo Llarena sent official communications to the Sassari Court to remind that, as in the case of Puigdemont, the arrest orders he issued are also valid for Clara Ponsatí and Toni Comín, former regional councilors who are currently in Sardinia and who arrived to support the former Catalan president at the hearing. Both are MEPs with suspended immunity from European justice.
"We have an immunity of movement that remains active and, above all, the arrest warrant against us is suspended - clarified Comín -, regardless of what Judge Llarena says, from the moment in which he himself asked for his opinion. of the Court of Justice of the EU ".
"Freedom, freedom" was the cry on the arrival of Puigdemont in court by the Sardinian separatists (several acronyms present to welcome him, together with a Corsican representative).
A counter-demonstration by Vox's right-wing ultranationalists had also been announced, but a very small delegation - led by lawyers, who had filed a summons to appear before the hearing - silently passed through the crowd and entered the building.
Also present was “Jordi Miró, president of Estat Català and of the board of directors of the FEM, Federation of Entities of the Mediterranean Mare Nostrum”.
(Unioneonline / ss)
ARRIVAL (video by Argentino Tellini):
WAITING (video by Gianluigi Deidda):
