Exiled Catalan ex-president Puigdemont released from jail - Punch Newspapers

Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, arrested in Italy at Spain’s request over an independence referendum that Madrid ruled illegal, was released from prison Friday with no apparent restrictions on his liberty.

“We always thought this could happen, but we also knew how it could end,” a newly liberated Puigdemont told the crowds.The court in Sassari will examine an extradition request for Puigdemont on October 4, his lawyer Agostinangelo Marras said. It also sparked anger in Catalonia as several hundred pro-independence supporters demonstrated Friday evening outside the Italian consulate in Barcelona, slamming Spanish “repression”.

And in Catalonia’s regional capital Barcelona, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Italian consulate, some holding makeshift signs reading “Freedom” in Catalan over Puigdemont’s picture.The October 2017 referendum was staged by Catalonia’s separatist regional government despite a ban by Madrid and the process was marred by police violence.

In March, the European Parliament rescinded immunity for Puigdemont and two other pro-independence MEPs, a decision that was upheld in July by the EU’s General Court. “In the face of persecution and judicial repression, our strongest condemnation. It has to stop,” he wrote on Twitter.

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