Catalonia’s separatist former leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to attend a political rally in Barcelona today after seven years in self-imposed exile, then disappeared before police could arrest him. Amid a heavy police presence, Puigdemont addressed a crowd of thousands of supporters in the Catalan capital from a platform near the Catalan parliament before disappearing into the background. He told the crowd that he aimed to revive the push for independence that plunged Spain into political crisis seven years ago. “Today, many believed that they would celebrate my arrest, and believed that this punishment would deter us – and you,” he said. “Today, I have come to remind them that we are still here! We’re still here because we don’t have the right to give up.” Officials from his Junts party, including Parliament Speaker Josep Ruhl and members of the moderate separatist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya party he leads […]
Source: News Beast
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