The Catalan Ex-Premier Puigdemont is also to its legally made possible extradition to Spain a fighter. During a Video-Switch to Barcelona, he made a historically questionable motives.
Puigdemont in Germany, during a press conference in may 2018
Applause, applause for one who smiles from a distance via Video in the room in Barcelona. Carles Puigdemont is from Germany, as in the rooms of the Ateneu Barcelonès, the leading protagonists of the Catalan independence movement have gathered to announce for the coming autumn, the creation of a new platform for the Catalan independence.
“Crida Nacional per la República” (“a National reputation for the Republic”) to you hot and all those clubs who want to bring the independence of Catalonia, in spite of the in the last few months, experienced setbacks. The new movement was “a reference, which commits us to keep the mandate of 2.3 million people to the polls, the Faithful,” – said in a pre-formulated statement.
The sentence plays on the independence referendum of 1. October 2017, as the Catalans voted on their independence. At the time of the vote to around 42% of the voters Catalans, of which around 90 percent for independence debates.
“The greatest humiliation of the Spanish judiciary for 40 years”
After the Catalan government had declared under Puigdemont at the end of October, the independence, was deposed by the Spanish Central government. At the same time, the Spanish justice filed charges against their members. One of the charges was “Rebellion”. Puigdemont fled to Belgium. At the end of March 2018 he was arrested on German soil. The higher regional court of Schleswig ruled that an extradition to Spain was lawful – but only because of the allegation of misappropriation of public funds, but not because of the – more serious – on suspicion of “Rebellion”.
“Puigdemont, President of the Catalan Republic”: solidarity demonstration in Barcelona, in April 2018
Thus, the European arrest warrant has already now very favorable for Puigdemont. Because he, European delivery, according to the law, according to the decision of the regional court of Schleswig-Holstein should now no longer the “Rebellion” will also be prosecuted in Spain, the Spanish Supreme court has decided in favour of a withdrawal of the European arrest warrant against Carles Puigdemont.
The conservative, the cause of the Spanish nation-state committed to the newspaper “El Mundo” speaks according to the judgment of the district court of “the greatest humiliation suffered by the Spanish justice in the past 40 years”. It will be assumed you are of a “regional court” has spoken with the accused unjustifiably by the accusation of Rebellion. “The judge seems to need a successfully-drawn carnage, to see that a riot is a crime”, – is spoken in “El Mundo”. The process you evaluate as a disgrace: “the poor German democracy. Poor Europe”.
Restrained the newspaper “El País shows, however,”. The judge would have judged in accordance with the provisions of the law, it says. This may be a sign for the stability of the German state law.
History of suffering as a myth
Meanwhile, a book of French Sandrine Morel in Spain for discussion. The Spain correspondent of the French newspaper “Le Monde” has written a book about the Catalan independence movement, with a focus on the last months of the year (“En el huracán. Una mirada privilegiada al laberinto del procés”, such as “In the eye of the hurricane. An exclusive look at the maze of events”). It describes, among other things, the worthy from their point of view questionable, because one-sided interpretation of the Catalan independence activists of the Spanish-Catalan history.
Demagoguery on the road: demonstrators with a poster, Franco shows in June 2018, the outgoing Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in a kiss with the Spanish dictator Francisco
This is for you, especially as the suffering history of the Catalans under the Spanish domination. Morel quotes the Catalan historian Francesc Xavier Hernández, Professor at the faculty of social Sciences of the University of Barcelona. The, Morel, had compared, in a conversation with the Catalan history under the rule of the Spaniards with the “genocide of the Armenians”.
Puigdemont: “Unjustified Repression”
The motif of the suffering history to handle in – significantly gemilderterer Form Puigdemont during his Grußworts to the company in the Ateneu Barcelonès. “We need to get the fight upright against the unjustified Repression approach, and the way for the Catalan Republic go on,” he cried to the Assembled from Germany.
National history as a suffering story: this is one of the constant motifs of Catalan separatists. The overweening character of this myth, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in your comment to possible become the time of delivery. You criticized him as untenable. “The Spanish Constitution does not provide for a right to secession. The constitutional court had banned the Referendum. This is in accordance with international law. This granted to a minority only a right to Secede, if this is brutally suppressed. Can be in today’s Spain.”
The old and the new: Carles Puigdemont (li.) and his successor as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Quim Torra (re.)
Get out of the spotlight
Although Puigdemont may not be on the basis of the European extradition laws to the accused to surrender to Spain of the “Rebellion”. Difficult climate between the separatists and the national government, but it nevertheless remains.
After all, the new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánches has led, just a few week in office, already in a conversation with Quim Torra, the new President of the Catalan national government.
The content was little known. However, the mere fact that it came to the interview, is regarded as a success. The German government is likely to see the relief. Because of the enforced arrest warrant in Germany is, without wanting it to become a political player in the Spanish-Catalan argument. The suggestive of relaxation, it could allow Germany a couple of steps out of the limelight withdraw.