{"id":20421,"date":"2021-09-26T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:16:42","slug":"catalan-ex-leader-puigdemont-says-returning-to-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-world-news\/catalan-ex-leader-puigdemont-says-returning-to-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont says returning to Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alghero, Italy, Sept 25 (AFP\/APP):Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said he would return to Belgium on Monday, but that he would return to Italy for a court hearing there on Spain&#8217;s extradition request.<\/p>\n<p>Puigdemont, who had been arrested in Italy at Spain&#8217;s request over an independence referendum that Madrid ruled illegal, was speaking as he was allowed to walk free from prison pending the October 4 extradition hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I plan to return to Brussels on Monday because there is a meeting of the foreign trade committee, of which I am a member,&#8221; he told journalists in the Sardinian village of Algero.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On October 4, I am summoned to Sassari court (in northern Sardinia).<br \/>\n&#8220;I will in fact attend, because every time I have been summoned by the courts, I have presented myself,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Puigdemont, a member of the European Parliament who fled Spain following the 2017 vote, had left jail in the Sardinian town of Sassari on Friday to cheers from supporters outside.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old separatist leader had spent the night there after being taken into custody the day before, but his lawyer said he had been told he was free to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alghero, Italy, Sept 25 (AFP\/APP):Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said he would return to Belgium on Monday, but that he would return to Italy for a court hearing there on Spain&#8217;s extradition request. 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