‘They thought they’d be celebrating my arrest,’ Carles Puigdemont told a crowd in Barcelona. ‘Well, they are wrong.’
“It was magic”, said former Barcelona mayor Xavier Trias, of how Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont appeared at a rally in central Barcelona on Thursday and then, embarrassingly for authorities, disappeared.
Shielding his face, he walked beside Jordi Turull, his party’s secretary general, and two other men in baseball caps. “They thought they’d be celebrating my arrest and they thought that this punishment would dissuade us,” he said. “Well, they are wrong.”Authorities suspect that, when he had finished speaking, Puigdemont got into a white car belonging to a police officer and left the vicinity, a Catalan interior department spokesperson said, sparking a frantic search by authorities.
The source said a small group of Mossos officers loyal to Puigdemont, who had provided security to him in neighbouring France while they were off-duty, were involved.The group was part of a special security unit created by the previous regional government and dismantled by the current one, the source said, adding, “We have a problem with that group and we knew it”.
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