Belgium: members of the Catalonia Zheeneralite are exempted

The Belgian court freed the ex-president of Catalonia Carles Puchdemon and four other members of the Generalite from Madrid from the guard under the obligation to be an obligation for further hearings at the request of Spain on their issuance. It is reported by Reuters.

The hearings should begin within the next 15 days. Catalan politicians are forbidden to leave Belgium without the sanction of the judge.

Madrid accuses Puchdemona and his colleagues of rebellion, incitement to rebellion, embezzlement of state funds, disobedience of legal power and violation of obligations. These accusations are made in connection with the Catalan leadership of the referendum on the separation of the region from Spain and the subsequent proclamation of its independence.

The seven members of the Zeneralitat who remained in Catalonia, including the vice president, the head of the regional government Uriol Loginrasiras, as well as two more left for Belgium, but then returned to their homeland on Thursday were arrested on the same accusations by the National Judicial Collegium of Spain. At the same time, for one of the accused - Santi Willa - it is possible to release 50 thousand euros, since he resigned before the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia and agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

Also, the accusations are put forward to the speaker of the parliament Karme Forkadel and five more deputies. The hearings on their arrest were postponed until November 9 after applications submitted by deputies to provide the time for preparation for protection. At the same time, before the hearing, all six are placed under police supervision.

On Friday, Madrid sent to the prosecutor's office of Belgium requests for the arrest of members of the Zeneralitat in this country. On Sunday morning, Puchdemon and his colleagues surrendered to the police and were taken into custody before the trial.

The declaration of independence of Catalonia was adopted by parliament on October 27. 70 deputies voted for, against - 10, two abstained, 53 boycotted voting. Immediately after this, the government in Madrid from the sanction of the Senate of Spain in accordance with Article 155 of the Constitution of the country dismissed the Catalan parliament and Zeneralitat .

I.O. The heads of Catalonia for the period before the extraordinary elections scheduled for December 21, the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Sorah Saras de Santamaria was appointed .

On October 30, it became known that Puchdemon arrived in Brussels along with several other officials of Zheeneralitat. A day earlier, the Minister of Migration Policy of Belgium, Theo Franken, is a member of the new Flemish Alliance, advocating the gradual exit of Flanders from the kingdom, - the political asylum declared his readiness to provide the Puchdemone. However, the detached president of Catalonia assured that he would not take this opportunity.

On October 31, the Constitutional Court of Spain suspended the declaration of independence of Catalonia .