Spanish ambassador in Germany slams Catalunya pro-independence campaigners
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 @ 11:46 PM
SPAIN'S ambassador in Germany says the Catalunya independence issue is 'not a conflict between Madrid and Barcelona', but 'a problem amongst the catalanes'.
Victoria Morera says the pro-independence campaigners do not actually want the 'dialogue' they have been asking for since long before the October 1 referendum, and slams their 'permanent allusions to Franco's régime', which she calls 'outmoded', 'part of the history of nationalism', and 'playing the victim'.
“Spain is a democratic State,” Sra Morera says in a letter to the Süddeutsche Zeitung (South German News), which she wrote in response to articles in various German media about former Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont's extradition process.
Puigdemont, who has been living in exile in Belgium, was arrested in the German region of Schleswig-Holstein just over the Danish border whilst driving back from a conference in Helsinki.
He was released on bail five days ago after the regional court decided there were no grounds to charge him for 'rebellion', as Spain wishes to do, but say he could still face action for 'misuse of public funds' for forging ahead with the disputed referendum using taxpayers' cash.
Puigdemont is now waiting for the court of Schleswig-Holstein to decide whether to extradite him in accordance with Spain's request.
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