He is in Spain since its Declaration of independence in Catalonia and the subsequent flight to Brussels, as public enemy number one. Now Carles Puigdemont , the former Catalan regional President, in Zurich. At 20, he performs tonight at the Zurich Kaufleuten on a TA Podium. We broadcast the discussion live.
The large hall of the Zurich Kaufleutens is fully occupied. Puigdemont will outline its Position after the breakdown of talks with the Spanish government and on the for two weeks to ongoing criminal proceedings against twelve of his comrades-in-arms in Madrid. Then he will ask questions of the TA team and the audience. It Sandro Benini and Res Strehle moderate.
visit to the Zurich town hall
later in The afternoon, had councillors Puigdemont already with some Parish and community councils in the Zurich town hall taken. Has organized the Meeting of Elena Marti (Green). She maintains contact with the political organization “Assemblea Nacional Catalana”, which campaigns for the independence of Catalonia and the preservation of the Catalan culture. The Meeting serves to exchange experiences and to raise awareness, said Marti.
A celebrity guest takes on the gallery space: Carles Puigdemont in the Zurich town hall. Video: TA
Council President Martin Bürki (FDP) welcomed Puigdemont in English with a “Welcome, Mr. Carles Puigdemont,” and adds that it had been a private and informal exchange with the Zurich local politicians.
Puigdemont: “I’m not going to monitored,”
Yesterday, he was in the BBC Interview on the criticism of individual comrades-in-arms why he has with his escape, the criminal proceedings in Spain, as elsewhere, “I am for the sake of convenience here,” said Puigdemont, “but to make the question of Catalan independence, a European issue.”
Yesterday, the Madrid deposed former Catalan Prime Minister had made to the BBC in public that he will be monitored in exile, apparently. Therefore, two of its cars, electronic devices had been attached. The SIM cards for these devices to come from the UK. The Belgian justice was going to investigate the case.
Puigdemonts Monitoring, how Puigdemont located in March last year after its entry into Germany on a motorway in Schleswig-Holstein and was arrested. The Spanish extradition request because of Rebellion, was not upheld by the court in Schleswig-Hollstein, however, because the complained offence of Rebellion requires, according to the criminal law of the EU countries in violence. Puigdemont and his party, the PDC had to be known but always to non-violence.
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Created: 27.02.2019, 18:05 PM