Post by ratnakhatun on Dec 11, 2023 5:46:40 GMT -5
The Ministry of the Interior has left in the hands of the Generalitat of Catalonia the decision to provide a Mossos d'Esquadra escort to the former Catalan president and leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, a police protection that only excludes in the event that he requires service abroad. from Spain and Belgium, a country to which he fled in 2017 to avoid justice. As sources from the Ministry of the Interior have told Europa Press, it is the Generalitat chaired by Pere Aragonès (ERC) that has to respond to Puigdemont's request for an escort "immediately." The request was formulated in parallel with the PSOE registering yesterday the amnesty law that, if approved, will forgive the crimes committed by it and the rest of the politicians and prosecuted by the 'procés'.
The acting Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured this Tuesday that Country Email List the Ministry of the Interior "will process and will surely resolve what is appropriate" regarding the escort request that Puigdemont made this Monday, two days before the beginning of the Plenary Session of Pedro Sánchez's investiture as President of the Government. According to sources from the Ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, it is the Generalitat, through its Department of the Interior and the Mossos d'Esquadra, who has to decide whether Puigdemont meets the "technical-police criteria" to have the protection service. police.
Other previous requests On the other hand, if the request for an escort affects another country, such as Belgium, where Puigdemont has resided since he fled Spain to avoid the action of Spanish justice, it would be this country that would have to authorize whether or not he allows entry into its territory to someone to carry out police functions. The escort service for Puigdemont has generated different controversies since his escape from Spain in 2017. The Barcelona Court sentenced the former Catalan Interior Minister Miquel Buch to four and a half years in prison for appointing the police officer Lluís Escolà as a position of trust to escort the former president.
The acting Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured this Tuesday that Country Email List the Ministry of the Interior "will process and will surely resolve what is appropriate" regarding the escort request that Puigdemont made this Monday, two days before the beginning of the Plenary Session of Pedro Sánchez's investiture as President of the Government. According to sources from the Ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, it is the Generalitat, through its Department of the Interior and the Mossos d'Esquadra, who has to decide whether Puigdemont meets the "technical-police criteria" to have the protection service. police.
Other previous requests On the other hand, if the request for an escort affects another country, such as Belgium, where Puigdemont has resided since he fled Spain to avoid the action of Spanish justice, it would be this country that would have to authorize whether or not he allows entry into its territory to someone to carry out police functions. The escort service for Puigdemont has generated different controversies since his escape from Spain in 2017. The Barcelona Court sentenced the former Catalan Interior Minister Miquel Buch to four and a half years in prison for appointing the police officer Lluís Escolà as a position of trust to escort the former president.