The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that resolves the prejudicial questions raised in its day by the instructor of the cause of the

process

, the magistrate

Pablo Llarena

, constitutes an

accolade to the Spanish Justice

.

Spain is a full and functional State of law, and thus it has once again been ratified in the face of the fallacious image that the Catalan separatists in Brussels have tried to paint for years about the legal system of our country.

I sentenced her

gives Llarena free rein to issue a new arrest warrant against the former

counselor

Lluis Puig

, thus limiting to the maximum the capacity of action of the Belgian authorities to continue refusing the delivery of

Carlos Puigdemont

and the rest of the fled.

Despite the resounding defeat of his positions, the former Catalan president took advantage yesterday with his usual victim rhetoric to distort the reasoning behind the sentence and appear to be a clearly non-existent triumph.

There is no doubt that the European Justice agrees with Llarena

, whose rigor and tenacity when it comes to defending our rule of law - even from the solitude to which the Government has led him - in the face of the serious attempt to secede Catalonia and to foreignize its citizens have now been backed by the Court from Luxembourg.

Llarena's victory is also the defeat of the Brussels Court of Appeal for questioning the Euro-orders issued by the judge.

The Belgian Justice did not respect community law and violated the 2002 framework decision that regulates European arrest warrants and the procedures for handing over fugitives to Member States.

It is unacceptable that Belgium questioned the democratic quality of another EU state

although not surprising.

It is the same justice that in 2019 was sentenced for not handing over the ETA terrorist Natividad Jauregi to Spain, with blood crimes, on the grounds that in our country she could be tortured.

It should be remembered that European judgments are mandatory.

Belgian magistrates will no longer be able to argue that the Supreme Court is not the competent body to claim the former

President

or the ex

counselors

nor that there is a risk that they see their rights violated if they are handed over.

But

it is the Government of Spain who is also deeply questioned

, because among their arguments to defend the suppression of the crime of sedition were the refusals of the European justice to attend to the Spanish Euro-orders, citing reasons that have now been proven wrong.

The fact that a CJEU ruling that gives support to the Spanish Justice is bad news for the Government accurately portrays the perverse place in which the Executive is situated in regards to the defense of general interests and the prestige of our country abroad.

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