Barcelona (EFE).- The ex-minister and MEP of Junts Clara Ponsatí has gone early in the morning to the Barcelona airport of El Prat to take a flight that allows her to attend the plenary session of the European Parliament that is being held this afternoon in Brussels.
As reported by the radio station RAC1, Ponsatí passed the airport security controls shortly after 6 in the morning to go to the boarding area and catch a plane.
The MEP will have to stop at a European airport to get to Brussels, since at this time of the morning there are no direct flights to the Belgian capital.
Ponsatí, accused of a crime of disobedience for facilitating the unilateral referendum of 1-O in Catalonia, was arrested yesterday afternoon in Barcelona by the Mossos d’Esquadra after entering Spain by car through the French-Spanish border and offering a press conference at the College of Journalists of Catalonia.
Obligation to appear before the Supreme Court
After being taken to the security courts in Barcelona, she was released shortly before 11:00 p.m., after the Supreme Court so agreed, which has summoned her to appear on April 24 with the warning that she will be arrested again. If he does not appear.
The investigating judge Pablo Llarena issued an order yesterday in which he agrees to annul the arrest of the former minister, as well as the prosecution for absenteeism that he agreed to after five years ago he fled from Spanish justice to avoid being tried in the case of process.
In her order, Llarena summons the MEP to appear before the Supreme Court on April 24, assisted by a lawyer, in order to inform her that she is being prosecuted for a crime of disobedience, which does not carry prison sentences, only imprisonment. disablement
In addition, it warns her that if she does not appear, “her personal situation” could be modified and she could be brought before the court “by the public force.”