Puigdemont back in EU Parliament after release from Italy
Record ID: 1638776
Title: Puigdemont back in EU Parliament after release from Italy
Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (SEPTEMBER 27, 2021) (REUTERS) CATALAN SEPARATIST LEADER CARLES PUIGDEMONT ATTENDING MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE CAMERAMAN FILMING PUIGDEMONT PUIGDEMONT SPEAKING WITH FELLOW CATALAN SEPARATIST, FORMER CATALAN HEALTH MINISTER AND MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ANTONI COMIN PUIGDEMONT AND COMIN SEATED PUIGDEMONT ATTENDING COMMITTEE MEETING PUIGDEMONT SEATED BY HIS NAME SIGN PUIGDEMONT AND COMIN ATTENDING COMMITTEE MEETING EU PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SESSION PUIGDEMONT AND COMIN ARRIVING FOR COMMITTEE MEETING, WALKING TOWARDS JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (Catalan) CATALAN SEPARATIST LEADER, CARLES PUIGDEMONT, SAYING: "I don't know what will happen (next week), it depends on the judge. He has summoned me to testify on October 4, I will go, as you can imagine it is not easy because of the connections are not easy, I will go in a full week but I will go, and he (the judge) will have to make the decision and we are prepared. (Journalist asking: what do you expect to happen at the hearing?) I don't know, we have always gone with full confidence." PUIGDEMONT ENTERING EU PARLIAMENT MEETING ROOM MAIN ENTRANCE TO EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EXTERIOR OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING WHERE ITS PRESIDENT'S OFFICE IS LOCATED CHILDREN PLAYING OUTSIDE EU PARLIAMENT BUILDING
Embargoed: 11th October 2021 16:47
Keywords: Belgium Brussels Carles Puigdemont Catalonia EU European Parliament European Union President Sassari Spain jail prison release sedition charges
Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
City: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
Reuters ID: LVA001EWHUTZB
Story Text: Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont resumed his legislative work at the European Parliament on Monday (September 27), three days after he was released from police custody in Italy.
Upon his release, Puigdemont said he would return to Sardinia on Oct. 4 to attend a court hearing on his European arrest warrant.
"I will go in a full week but I will go," the former Catalan president said on his arrival at the European Parliament.
Puigdemont, an EU lawmaker, was detained him under the European arrest warrant issued by Spain on Thursday (September 23) in the city of Alghero where he was attending a Catalan folklore festival.
(Production: Joan Faus, Bart Biesemans, Clement Rossignol)