The former president of Spain’s Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, was released from a jail in the Italian city of Sassari on Friday, a day after his arrest on sedition charges.
"All good,” Puigdemont told reporters after leaving the prison.
The exiled former Catalan president was arrested by Italy on the island of Sardinia at Spain’s request over an independence referendum that Madrid ruled illegal. His lawyer, Agostinangelo Marras, had said earlier on Friday that Puigdemont would be freed while he fights extradition.
Puigdemont, a member of the European Parliament who fled Spain following the 2017 vote, is allowed to leave Italy, his lawyer said after his release. Puigdemont's next hearing is scheduled for October 4, the lawyer added.
The 58-year-old separatist leader spent the night in jail and appeared via videolink at a court hearing on Friday in Sassari, where a judge decided his bail conditions....
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called on Carles Puigdemont to “submit to justice” as the regional former president of Catalonia, who fled Spain after leading a botched independence attempt, was arrested in the Italian island of Sardinia.
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He said the Spanish government will respect the decision of the Italian court on Puigdemont.
The premier urged that the dialogue they established with the Catalonian autonomous government should continue to find a political solution to the independence bid in Catalonia.