Post by sevenofnine on Aug 8, 2024 11:08:31 GMT -5
This dude is like Roadrunner like Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon BEEP BEEP
Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Spain’s Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile and then vanished, sparking a frantic search by police to apprehend him.
Amid a heavy police presence, Puigdemont spoke to a crowd of thousands of followers in the Catalan capital from a platform near the Catalan parliament, telling them he aimed to revive the independence drive that plunged Spain into political crisis in 2017.
“They thought they’d be celebrating my arrest and they thought that this punishment would dissuade us, and you,” he said. “Well, they are wrong.”
When he had finished speaking Puigdemont went backstage, after which police and media were unable to locate him.
A loudspeaker announcement called on the crowd to accompany Puigdemont in a march towards the Catalan parliament. But while senior officials of Puigdemont’s Junts party and members of the moderate separatist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya made their way to the building, he instead got into a white car which belonged to
edition.cnn.com/2024/08/08/europe/catalan-separatist-puigdemont-reappears-spain-intl/index.html
Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont defied an arrest warrant to appear at a rally in Spain’s Barcelona on Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile and then vanished, sparking a frantic search by police to apprehend him.
Amid a heavy police presence, Puigdemont spoke to a crowd of thousands of followers in the Catalan capital from a platform near the Catalan parliament, telling them he aimed to revive the independence drive that plunged Spain into political crisis in 2017.
“They thought they’d be celebrating my arrest and they thought that this punishment would dissuade us, and you,” he said. “Well, they are wrong.”
When he had finished speaking Puigdemont went backstage, after which police and media were unable to locate him.
A loudspeaker announcement called on the crowd to accompany Puigdemont in a march towards the Catalan parliament. But while senior officials of Puigdemont’s Junts party and members of the moderate separatist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya made their way to the building, he instead got into a white car which belonged to
edition.cnn.com/2024/08/08/europe/catalan-separatist-puigdemont-reappears-spain-intl/index.html
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