Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont set for Spain return after arrest warrant lifted
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Puigdemont was accused of using public funds to organise an independence referendum, which the courts said amounted to embezzlement
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Agence France-Presse Published: 9:02pm, 6 Oct 2026
A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, paving the way for his return to Spain ahead of a general election in November.
Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena made the move after Spain’s Constitutional Court backed extending a 2024 amnesty law to include the crime of embezzlement.
The law was aimed at easing tensions in the wealthy northeastern region following its failed 2017 independence bid, Spain’s worst political crisis in decades.
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