Puigdemont will continue on the run: "I will not return handcuffed or surrender before a Spanish judge"

Carles Puigdemont

has no intention of being accountable before the Spanish Justice and will continue to be on the run after learning that, despite the reform of the Penal Code hatched between ERC and the Government of

, the Supreme Court judge,

, continues to prosecute him for a crime of embezzlement that carries up to 12 years in prison.

"I will not return handcuffed or surrendered before a Spanish judge to be lenient," said the former president of the Generalitat in a message with an alleged institutional tone sent from Brussels, where he will remain until the European Justice rules on his case: the On January 31, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), will rule on the margin of the States to execute the Euro-orders and in February or March the General Court of the EU (TGUE) will decide on the immunity of the former

.

"We are at the end of the European battle and I will fight it to the end," said the fugitive.

Puigdemont has not spared reproaches towards ERC either.

"Whoever wanted to see in legislative changes a tool to end judicial persecution was wrong."

"The Supreme Court has already made it clear how it will apply the unfortunate embezzlement reform to us," added the leader of Junts, who stressed that "it is not about accepting being convicted of supposedly minor crimes."

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