{"id":1605,"date":"2017-11-03T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2017-11-04T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:42:00","slug":"spanish-judge-issues-european-arrest-warrant-for-ousted-catalan-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/spanish-judge-issues-european-arrest-warrant-for-ousted-catalan-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish judge issues European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.11\/article\/59fcbf92fc7e9387638b4567.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish judge issues European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leader Puigdemont\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">Carles Puigdemont \u00a9 Yves Herman \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Nov 4, 2017: A Spanish judge has issued a European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. The leader\u2019s request to testify by videoconference has been rejected. \u00a0Puigdemont is currently in Belgium, where he went after Madrid sacked his government. International arrest warrants have also been issued for four of his associates.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Together with Puigdemont they face charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds and breach of trust. On Thursday, ex-Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras and seven other former regional ministers were jailed without the opportunity to post bail.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s prosecutors have already received the arrest warrant for Puigdemont and will<em> \u201cstudy it,\u201d<\/em> before passing it to a judge.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will study it and we will give it to an investigative judge, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,\u201d<\/em> federal prosecutor Van der Sypt told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, Puigdemont told Belgium\u2019s RTBF broadcaster that his prompt departure for Brussels was not actually \u201c<em>fleeing<\/em>\u201d Catalonia, as he was ready to participate in the snap elections Madrid scheduled following the crackdown on his regional government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We can run a campaign anywhere because we&#8217;re in a globalized world<\/em>,\u201d he stated, adding that he is seeking to engage in \u201c<em>true justice<\/em>\u201d in Belgium and \u201c<em>not in the Spanish justice<\/em>,\u201d while his prompt departure was needed to prepare for his legal defense.\u00a0\u201c<em>Violence was never an option for us<\/em>,\u201d Puigdemont said.<\/p>\n<p>The ousted Catalan leader also said that he still considered himself and the jailed former ministers the legitimate government of the region.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe consider ourselves a legitimate government,\u201d<\/em> Puigdemont said. <em>\u201cThere must be a continuity to tell the world what&#8217;s going on in Spain&#8230; It&#8217;s not with a government in jail that the elections will be neutral, independent, normal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The arrests of the ousted ministers prompted pro-independence rallies in Catalonia, including one that took place in Barcelona outside the City Council on Friday. Two Catalan separatist groups, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Omnium Cultural, whose leaders were jailed last month over sedition charges, called for a general strike in the region next Wednesday and mass demonstrations next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carles Puigdemont \u00a9 Yves Herman \/ Reuters Nov 4, 2017: A Spanish judge has issued a European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. The leader\u2019s request to testify by videoconference has been rejected. \u00a0Puigdemont is currently in Belgium, where he went after Madrid sacked his government. 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