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Police search for Puigdemont after leading Barcelona rally in surprise return to Spain
euronews (in English)
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08/08/2024
The separatist former president of Catalonia returned to his home country in a bid to prevent the Catalan parliament from voting in a new socialist government, in what he described as "the only way to return to normality".
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The former separatist leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has returned to Spain after
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fleeing nearly seven years ago.
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He says he's returned to Barcelona to campaign against socialist Salvador Illa's bid to be
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regional president, which would bring an end to 14 years of separatist-led governments.
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Addressing the crowd, Puigdemont accused the Spanish authorities of a crackdown on the
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Catalan separatist movement.
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Puigdemont left Spain to avoid arrest after he organised an illegal independence referendum
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in an attempt to break Catalonia away from the rest of the country.
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He has now left his self-imposed exile in Brussels and faces pre-trial detention in
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Spain for embezzlement of public funds.
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Although a contentious amnesty bill for separatist supporters involved in the illegal 2017 ballot
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was passed by Spain's parliament earlier this year, the Supreme Court has refused to apply
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the law to Puigdemont and two other former regional ministers.
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