Puigdemont is willing to return after 12M even if he is arrested, according to his lawyer
Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont's lawyer, has assured that the former Catalan president is willing to return to Catalonia when the amnesty law comes into force and to submit to an eventual investiture, even at the risk of being arrested: “He will carry his decision to the end” . In an interview on RAC1, Boye stated that once the amnesty law is published in the BOE – which is expected at the end of May or beginning of June – the Supreme Court will have to lift the arrest warrant against Puigdemont for the process and “a different legal framework” will be opened, which would allow the former Catalan president to return. The lawyer has admitted, however, that there is a possibility that the former Catalan president will be arrested – he cannot rule out a new arrest warrant in the Tsunami Democràtic terrorism case – but has stressed that Puigdemont “is going to assume the consequences of their decisions.”
In that sense, he recalled that the amnesty law is clear in excluding from the pardon measure terrorism crimes framed in European regulations and that have involved violations of fundamental rights, “not just any nonsense.” “They may arrest him, but they will not prevent him from being president of the Generalitat if he wants to be,” Boye insisted, after emphasizing that Puigdemont could undergo an eventual investiture to be elected president “if the law is interpreted correctly.” ”.
In his opinion, that is the “fear” that both the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and that of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, have. The lawyer recognizes that if Puigdemont, who has not yet clarified whether he will be a Junts candidate in the Catalan elections, leaves his seat as an MEP to head an electoral list, he risks being arrested because he would have lost his immunity as a MEP. .
However, after remembering that Puigdemont was already arrested in Italy despite being a European parliamentarian, he clarified that the former president “exposes himself as he is exposed now”, but “with a different scenario and an amnesty law that contemplates these cases. “I am calm about it,” he added. “You can rest assured that when Puigddemont makes a decision he is going to take it to the end and that means that he is going to stand where he has to stand,” he said. (EFE)