Pep Guardiola's family aircraft searched 'for Puigdemont in hiding'
Friday, February 23, 2018 @ 8:45 PM
MANCHESTER City FC trainer Pep Guardiola's family's aeroplane was searched when they travelled to Barcelona yesterday (Thursday) and also the previous Sunday as the Guardia Civil wanted to check deposed Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont was not in hiding.
Puigdemont is in exile in Belgium along with four of his ministers, and if they return to Spain they would immediately be taken into custody in accordance with a national arrest warrant – but as it does not apply beyond the country's borders, they can remain free anywhere else in the world.
But Puigdemont is the only presidential candidate for the pro-independence parties which earned the most collective votes in the December 21 regional elections, and cannot be sworn in unless he attends a ceremony in person at the Catalunya Parliament offices.
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