I cannot tell you anything (about) where he went,
The mission was neither to get himself arrested, nor to boycott any investiture session; it was simply to exercise his right as a citizen and as an elected deputy as much as he can, and he still has the right to vote on this investiture,
If this is so, it would be extremely serious and they would be incurring in several crimes,
It's feasible that it could be in the boot, it could be,
Things have not been done properly here. There has to be at least a political responsibility behind it, a dismissal, something,
With more than 2,000 people around, going in there and arresting Puigdemont would have caused a public order problem and we have to avoid that at all costs,
Puigdemont has entered through the crowd thanks to the Mossos who act as escorts for Junts officials,
I have come here to remind you that we are still here,
Long live a free Catalonia!"
A country that has an amnesty law and does not apply it, has a problem with democracy,
They were thinking they would celebrate my arrest … But they are wrong,
For the last seven years we have been persecuted because we wanted to hear the voice of the Catalan people,
All people have the right to self-determination.”
Puigdemont, our president!”
I’m not happy. Because I would have liked to avoid this unpleasant situation of seeing him taken by the police. I’d love to see him make a grand entrance,
If they arrest me, it won't be the first time. I have been in a German prison and another in Italy, I have been arrested in a Belgian police station and I have been summoned by the French anti-terrorist police. All this, of course, by order of the Spanish judicial apparatus."
These are standard security procedures that are carried out before any investiture ceremony.
That in order to do so I would risk an arbitrary and illegal detention is evidence of the democratic anomaly that we have a duty to denounce and fight against,
I have come here to construct, not to dismantle, and to make the most of my predecessor’s achievements.”
It’s painful to watch this madness live – a madness for which Pedro Sánchez is chiefly responsible. Damaging Spain’s image like this is unforgivable,