In the midst of complex legal gibberish, the lawyer for the European Parliament, Norbert Lorenz, declared that they never received notification that the plaintiffs had been appointed or elected parliamentarians in Spain, and they were allowed to take their seats with dubious legality, which is a harsh response to the arguments of Boye, who accuses the European Parliament of not respecting the rights of their defendants in the processing of the petitions to waive their immunity and be tried in Spain . Boye elaborated on the reform of sedition, something that he now claims to support his thesis and shows that the independence politician has suffered since his “exile” a “political persecution” to arrest him and judge him for the “procés”. We are facing an overwhelming “fumus persecutionis”, Boye denounced at the hearing for the appeal filed against the European Parliament for having lifted Puigdemont’s immunity. He added that neither The president of the Commission that analyzed the request, Adrián Vázquez de Cs, nor the rapporteur for legal services, Ángel Dhambazaki, were impartial, and recalled the latter’s phrase: “Puigdemont, to prison.”
Ehe fugitive former president faces a very complex hearing that will mark his judicial future, with the lifting of immunity, the petition and his possible arrest and subsequent trial if he comes to Spain. True to his style, he does not give up. In the midst of an unprecedented judicial struggle between the Supreme Court, the State Attorney’s Office and the European Courts, “El Puchi” rises from the ashes like the phoenix. On the anniversary of 1-O, the fugitive declared himself the legitimate heir of the illegal referendum, is committed to total confrontation with the Government and claims his Council for the Republic as the true Government of Catalonia in exile. Since his flight to Belgium, installed in his court in Waterloo, he has not stopped traveling throughout Europe protected by his parliamentary immunity, rejected by Judge Pablo Llarena by keeping the Euro-order in force, raised by the European Parliament and now appealed before the TGUE.
Faced with the deep division between JuntsxCat and Esquerra, the fugitive stands as the leader of the sovereignist roadmap and considers himself the true wandering messiah of the “procés”. He is still confident in his political expectations, he is facing this judicial hearing before the TGUE calmly convinced that, whatever happens, he is once again a hard stone in the shoes of Pedro Sánchez, Pere Aragonès and the famous dialogue table.
Whether he remains at large or if justice accepts Judge Llarena’s request for his immediate delivery to Spain, his controversial figure emerges, the protagonist of the sovereignist crusade and he sees himself with the strength to compete with his eternal adversary, Oriol Junqueras and ERC, through who reproaches his surrender to Sánchez. The fugitive prophet of Catalan independence moves again in his battle to avoid extradition to Spain, although the statement by the lawyer for the European Parliament is a severe setback. On the fifth anniversary of 1-O, he delivered a videoconference speech confronted with President Pere Aragonès in which he solemnly claimed the Council for the Republic, his “government in exile.” An act that demonstrates the great gap in the independence world, since the fugitive considers himself the legitimate president of the Generalitat and thus transfers it to his entire team.
Five years have passed since that month of October 2017 when Puigdemont misled everyone, fled to Belgium and installed his court in Waterloo. As the Republicans accuse since then “he has lived like a king”, while his leader, Oriol Junqueras, remained in the Lledoners prison . During all this time, the fugitive temporarily set foot in a German prison, has incessantly maintained his claim to the Catalan republic, managed to become an MEP, used his successor, Quim Torra, as a puppet, observed with satisfaction the breakup of his former party, the PDeCAT, and articulated the new JuntsxCat coalition.
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