Released from the Bancali prison in Sassari, greeted by an ovation, Carles Puigdemont went to Alghero, to the hotel, and then got in touch with his lawyers to decide on the next steps.

In the late afternoon he left the institute by decision of the Court of Appeal which released him 20 hours after his arrest last night at Alghero airport. Not a random city: unique in Italy with Catalan language and culture, in these three days it hosts many people who have come from Catalonia and numerous separatists on the occasion of Adifolk, the international festival of Catalan popular culture.

Waiting for the former Catalan president were the Sardinian governor, Christian Solinas, and the president of the regional council, Michele Pais, who escorted Puigdemont by car to Alghero.

“Many thanks to all those who have cared about me and supported me in the last few hours. The fight does not stop ": he wrote on Twitter.

There have been numerous protests following the arrest and in particular the voices of iRS, ProgReS and Torra were raised asking for his immediate release. "The situation is still to be clarified: the European Parliament must take action to restore parliamentary immunity," said Simone Maulu, spokesman for the three acronyms, in the square in Sassari. "He is an MEP, a democrat that the Catalans have elected and he travels around Europe quietly to do politics and as soon as he arrives on Italian soil, in this case unfortunately in Sardinia, he is arrested and this is an infamy, a work of looting that goes rejected - added Cristiano Sabino, Sa Domo de Totus -, we need to create a democratic mobilization because this is what Puigdemont is pursuing: the democratic right to self-determination and self-determination of peoples "." A innantis "also expressed all" his solidarity with the president and the Catalan people ", calling for" immediate release "and denouncing" the authoritarian drift of the Italian state which once again proves that it has serious problems of democracy ". Also for A Innantis, the words of Franciscu Sedda: "In recent days Puigdemont has been in France and no one has dared to question his immunity as a European parliamentarian. Especially since Belgium and Germany have already rejected every request for extradition from Spain. Only in Italy could he be arrested. In an Italy so un-European. In a Sardinia which unfortunately is still Italy ".

Inside Bancali, Puigdemont had met Antonello Peru, regional councilor of the UDC Cambiamo! Group, immediately after the news of the liberation: "I spoke with him for about three quarters of an hour - says Peru - and first of all I brought him my personal human and political solidarity for yesterday's arrest. I found a very determined and serene person. I asked him how he was treated and he replied: 'very well' and that the staff of the Sassari prison had a very professional attitude towards him. He then wanted to emphasize that he has nothing against Italian justice, he said instead of feeling persecuted by Spanish justice. Finally, he added that he is not afraid of prison but that his only objective is the freedom of his people and for this reason he will continue his battle for the independence of Catalonia ”.

“As far as I'm concerned - Peru concludes - I consider his arrest a serious political error even before being an unhistorical denial of the freedoms of a people. The freedom to carry out a legitimate battle for self-determination ”.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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