9/25/2021- 6:20 p.m.
Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont returning to Belgium
Carles Puigdemont has said he’s returning to Belgium on Monday, after his detention in Italy at Spain’s request.
“I plan to return to Brussels on Monday because there is a meeting of the foreign trade committee, of which I am a member,” he told journalists in the Sardinian village of Algero.
“On October 4, I am summoned to Sassari court (in northern Sardinia).
“I will in fact attend, because every time I have been summoned by the courts, I have presented myself,” he added.
Puigdemont, an MEP, fled Spain following the 2017 vote – which Madrid deemed illegal.
