In his opinion, the coup is a sign of the “annoyance” caused in some by the good reception he claims to have received in Austria, where he claimed the 2017 unilateral declaration of independence.
The former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, has denounced this Friday that he has been beaten and rebuked by a person at the Vienna airport. Puigdemont has traveled this week to the Austrian capital, where he has given a lecture on the Catalan political situation at a university in the Central European country.
According to his own account, he received a blow to the back from someone who shouted at him as he passed: “To prison”, in Spanish. He has added that the individual has run away without “having the courage to show his face.” In his opinion, the coup is a sign of the “annoyance” caused in some by the good reception he claims to have received in Austria, where he claimed the unilateral declaration of independence of 2017. It is not necessary “to call a new referendum or a new declaration of independence”, he said, since he considers that the one he himself carried out in Parliament in 2017 is still valid.
Puigdemont has also denounced maneuvers so that he could not deliver the conference. His lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, has indicated on Twitter that by law he has the right to have an escort. «What is intended depriving him of such right?», He has asked himself. This is not the first incident Puigdemont has had at an airport. In Copenhagen, a person, with a Spanish flag, rebuked him and challenged him to kiss the flag. The former president of the Generalitat did so and assured that he had no problem with Spain.
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