The former president of the Generalitat explained that he entered Catalonia on the afternoon of August 6 and remained hidden until his emergence two days later in Barcelona, which coincided with the inauguration of Salvador Illa.
Former Generalitat President Carles Puigdemont first gave details of his escape on August 8, after his brief return to Catalonia. As he explained, he did not do so by boat, nor in a “trunk”, but crossed the border sitting in the backseat of a “private vehicle”.
This is stated in an article published in Politicsin which he confirms that Catalonia entered two days before, on Tuesday August 6 “in the afternoon”and remained crouched until his appearance at the welcome event organized in his honor in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Barcelona, an hour before the inauguration session of Salvador Illa, the August 8th.
After the event, instead of going on foot to the Parc de la Ciutadella to try to attend the plenary session of Parliament, he was seen getting into a white car and disappearing at full speed, without the Mossos d’Esquadra being able to stop him.
Puigdemont assured that his intention was to address Parliament after giving a short speech from the lectern, but that the police had “cordoned off the entire area, making it impossible”.
To avoid arrest, he had to “activate the alternative plan he had prepared,” which consisted of disappearing again after participating in the welcome ceremony.
“I have not returned to Catalonia to be arrested. I have returned to exercise the right to resist oppression. When a judge refuses to apply a democratic law, it is a form of oppression that no democrat should tolerate,” he emphasizes in his article in English.
Source: EITB
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