Spain’s Supreme Court has denied amnesty to separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who remains in exile after Catalonia’s failed secession attempt in 2017, and the Court maintains an arrest warrant against him. Judge Pablo Jaena “issued today a decision declaring inapplicable the granting of amnesty for the offense of embezzlement in the case against the former president of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont,” the court said in its decision, made public today, clarifying that therefore the arrest warrant against him remains in force. Within three days after the decision is communicated to the parties, the decision can be appealed, the filing said. On May 30, the Spanish parliament approved a law on amnesty for Catalan separatists, the price Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had to pay to return to power in November by securing the support of the two Catalan separatist parties, which called for the law to be passed as in return. […]
Source: News Beast
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