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Spain issues new international arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont

The Spanish Supreme Court has again resumed the effort to extradite former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, exiled in Belgium, after sentencing most of his ministers to serve lengthy prison sentences for the 2017 push for independence.

The court issued a new European Arrest Warrant for Puigdemont on Monday afternoon, shortly after issuing the long-awaited verdict for his former colleagues imprisoned in Spain.

ALSO READ: Catalan Trial verdict and sentences – up to 13 years

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Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s ousted president, during a press conference in Brussels on 28 July 2018. (AFP / John Thys)

After two failed attempts to extradite Puigdemont – first in Belgium and then in Germany – the Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena now hopes that the conviction for sedition will be enough to convince European judges to surrender him back to Spain.

ALSO READ: ‘No chance’ to extradite Puigdemont on ‘fabricated’ terrorism case, says lawyer.

In all, 12 pro-independence leaders faced trial in Spain’s Supreme Court. While Puigdemont and other politicians were also charged with criminal offences, they couldn’t be tried alongside their colleagues unless they returned to Spain.

ALSO READ: Supreme Court maintains arrest warrants for Puigdemont, Comín

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