
The Spanish Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not offer amnesty to former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders, in a major blow to the Spanish government's controversial amnesty bill.
In the decision, the court’s leading judge argued that the Catalan politicians responsible for the 2017 independence push embezzled funds in a way that benefited them personally and damaged the finances of the European Union.
Therefore, the court argued that the Venice Declaration makes it possible to reject a key part of the amnesty bill, which was formulated to see top Catalan leadership fully pardoned.
The international arrest warrant for Puigdemont, who fled Spain in 2017, stands.
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