The Constitutional Court rejects Puigdemont’s appeal against the arrest warrant

The Constitutional Court has appealed Carlo Puigdemontformer President of the Generalitat, against the national arrest warrant issued by the Supreme Court in confirming his prosecution for crimes of aggravated embezzlement and disobedience in trial.

The holiday chamber, composed of magistrates Concepción Espejel, César Tolosa and Laura Díez, has agreed not to admit the amparo appeal of Puigdemont and the former minister antony comeconsidering “the apparent non-existence of a violation of a fundamental right that can be protected under amparo”, as reported by the Constitutional Court.

The progressive magistrate Diez has issued a dissenting opinion, as she believes that the court should not have made a decision because the decision on the suspension of the precautions was not urgent and that in her case the appeal against amparo should have been allowed.

Last June, the Appeals Chamber confirmed the prosecution of Puigdemont and Antonio Comín, Clara Ponsatí and Lluis Puig, former ministers, for aggravated embezzlement and disobedience, following the reform of the Penal Code.

Puigdemont’s defense asked for the national arrest warrants to be annulled and the prosecution withdrawn so that “the procedure can be adapted to the realities created by the executive and legislature” because “no one is responsible for the mess of a deplorable criminal justice reform “. The prosecution replied that all they wanted was to “combine the case more procedurally to continue to fight new battles” in the courts, while “all this procedural stagnation was not the work of the court, nor the public prosecutor’s office or the Law Firm , it was the work of the appellants”.