Freed Carles Puigdemont, Solinas: "Sardinia, land of confrontation and freedom, let's celebrate"
“Spain is making a fool of itself”, the words of the former Catalan president, who was stopped on Thursday as soon as he set foot at the airport. The extradition hearing set for 4 October
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"As always we respect the independence of the judiciary and we are here to celebrate the release".
Governor Christian Solinas was also there to welcome in Bancali the release of Carles Puigdemont , the Catalan independentist arrested in Alghero on the basis of a European arrest warrant decided by the Spanish authorities for crimes against national public order and security: " The arrest saddened everyone - said the President of the Region, contested in front of the prison by some separatists - in the first place the Sardinians for the atavistic hospitality of this land which has always been a place of confrontation, freedom and culture and which has the Catalan people have feelings of brotherhood ”.
Puigdemont is now free to leave Sardinia and Italy. The Sassari Court of Appeal has not provided for restrictions, although the hearing to decide the extradition has been set for 4 October. And if by that date the former president of Catalonia is not available, the case will have to be concluded for Italy with a ruling of no place to proceed.
"Spain never misses an opportunity to ridicule itself", tweeted the independence leader who had just left Bancali. Thursday evening he arrived in Alghero, a community of Catalan language and culture, with a flight from Brussels: waiting for him, there is was his friend Joan Adell, former head of the Alghero branch of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Together they were supposed to go to dinner but, at the Riviera del Corallo terminal, the police transferred the former Catalan president to the Sassari prison, pending the hearing validation which took place yesterday at 3pm.
The news of his release cheered the opening ceremony of the 33rd edition of Aplec International: "Adifolk will remain a celebration of identity with an even deeper meaning - commented the mayor of Alghero Mario Conoci - the judicial one is never the right way to solve problems and dialogue with peoples. There should be an intervention by Europe, which has not yet taken place ”.
SOLIDARITY - The news of the arrest had left the community of Alghero dismayed, which yesterday spontaneously gathered in front of the monument of the Unity of the language, in Piazza Porta Terra, to express its closeness to Puigdemont. Cultural associations and ordinary citizens holding red striped flags on a golden background and a yellow bow pinned to the chest, a symbol of solidarity with the Catalan separatists.
"After four years of struggles we thought that this story was over - the words of Stefano Campus, president of the Omnium Cultural de l'Alguer - It was an ambush, in the great celebration of Catalan folklore".
(Unioneonline)
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