President Pujol had a quiet night and is in stable condition, after... He would have had to be hospitalized this weekend for pneumonia. at the Sagrada Familia Clinic in Barcelona.

Carles Puigdemont's defense team is making moves to expedite the application of the amnesty so that the former president can return to Catalonia. The defense team for the Junts leader requested on Monday, through a written statement of arguments to the Constitutional Court, that it apply the law "urgently and preferentially," according to reports. The World And the ARA has confirmed this, considering the favorable opinion on the law issued by the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last Thursday. The endorsement largely covered the amnesty law, including its application to cases of terrorism and embezzlement, and denied that it affected EU interests.

The independence movement scored a point in its legal battle against the Spanish judiciary when, in 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) admitted the possibility of denying a European arrest warrant in very specific circumstances: as declared by the Luxembourg Court, a judge can refuse extradition due to evidence of "generalized deficiencies" in the judicial system and a risk of persecution against individuals from a specific group.

Former President Carles Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, speaks to ARA one year after the passage of the amnesty law, in which he played a key role.

Carles Puigdemont's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, has defended his innocence this Monday in the trial in which he is accused of alleged money laundering and document falsification linked to drug trafficking. The prosecution is asking for 9 years and 9 months in prison for him for allegedly being part of a network led by the Galician José Ramón Prado Bugallo, better known as Sito Miñanco, which would import drugs to Spain from Latin America. "Every time I prove something, they change it for another," Boye complained at the end of the interrogation, in which he only answered the questions of his defense.

The New York Times published on Friday an extensive report on alleged links between the head of the office of former president Carles Puigdemont, Josep Maria Alay, and the former president's lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, and Russia. It explains a series of trips to Russia in 2019 and 2020 and a series of meetings with people linked to the Kremlin and the Russian secret services. This information, which also echoes El Periódico, is the result of a long investigation and draws on "European intelligence" reports and investigations by the Guardia Civil in the case that is in the court of instruction number 1 of Barcelona, led by Joaquín Aguirre, for which 21 people were arrested in October last year, including Alay.