{"id":370164,"date":"2018-07-20T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spain-abandons-attempt-to-extradite-puigdemont-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:55:07","slug":"spain-abandons-attempt-to-extradite-puigdemont-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/spain-abandons-attempt-to-extradite-puigdemont-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain abandons attempt to extradite Puigdemont from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Spain abandons attempt to extradite Puigdemont from Germany<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 July 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Yesterday, the Spanish Supreme Court abandoned its attempts to secure the extradition of deposed Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont from Germany back to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Puigdemont had fled Catalonia to Brussels last autumn during the brutal police crackdown launched by Madrid against the Catalan independence referendum he had organized. He was jailed in Germany in March and released on bail in April. Last week, a German regional court in Schleswig-Holstein ruled that Puigdemont could be extradited to Spain but granted extradition only on embezzlement charges, for using state funds to finance the referendum, and not on the more serious charges of rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena issued a statement attacking the German court ruling. Criticizing its \u201clack of concern\u201d for actions that \u201ccould have overthrown the Spanish constitutional order,\u201d he accused the Schleswig-Holstein court of overstepping its authority based on an \u201cunclarified position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Llarena did not, however, aggressively pursue the legal avenues available to try to overturn the Schleswig-Holstein court ruling. Llarena declined to appeal this ruling to the European Court of Justice. He also withdrew European Arrest Warrants issued by Madrid for Puigdemont and other Catalan nationalist officials who fled Catalonia together with Puigdemont during Madrid\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish arrest warrants for Puigdemont on charges of rebellion and embezzlement remain in force, however. \u201cCarles Puigdemont will be able to travel freely outside of Spain without fear of being detained,\u201d the social-democratic-leaning daily <em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em> concluded yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Puigdemont called this \u201cproof of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/07\/20\/puig-j20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Spain abandons attempt to extradite Puigdemont from Germany By Alex Lantier 20 July 2018 Yesterday, the Spanish Supreme Court abandoned its attempts to secure the extradition of deposed Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont from Germany back to Spain. Puigdemont had fled Catalonia to Brussels last autumn during the brutal police crackdown launched by Madrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}