"It rains in Flanders", with this phrase and a photo of rain in Belgium, the former minister and MEP of JxCat, Clara Ponsatí, has made it clear that she is in that country and has confirmed, as she has already stated on different occasions, that he will not appear this Monday before Judge Pablo Llarena of the Supreme Court (TS) in Madrid.
"I don't know if she is on her way to Brussels or if she is already in Brussels, but she has already said that she is working," said her lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, minutes before. "I'll work, I have a job," Ponsatí said yesterday after an event held on the occasion of Sant Jordi at the Junts Europarliamentary Office in the Born district of Barcelona.
Boye has insisted on TV3 in asking Llarena to "respect and comply" with the law of the European Union and end the procedure, understanding that Llarena "is not the judge established by law, that the facts do not constitute a crime, that if they were, they would be prescribed, that the judge has not requested the request and that the judge knows of the existence of a procedure for the defense of immunity by Clara Ponsatí".
Ponsatí, former minister of the Government of Carles Puigdemont, crossed the French-Spanish border by surprise on March 28 to return to Catalonia, without turning herself in to the authorities despite her arrest warrant. After offering a press conference, she was arrested by the Mossos d'Esquadra in the middle of the street and taken before the judge in Barcelona, who released her, after the Supreme Court investigating magistrate, Pablo Llarena, so agreed.
However, Llarena summoned her to appear before the Supreme Court on April 24, in order to inform her that she is being prosecuted for a crime of disobedience, which does not carry prison sentences, only disqualification, once the magistrate withdrew her sentence. crime of sedition after the reform of the Penal Code by which it was repealed.
Llarena already warned in his order of March 28 that in the event that Ponsatí did not attend, this "will entail the modification of his personal situation and his conduction before this court by the public force." Legal sources consulted explain that she could be detained again, albeit instrumentally, that is, to bring her before Llarena and be able to complete her procedural process, as long as she is in Spain. On the other hand, outside of Spain, the Euro-orders are not active and the judge can do little.
