Junts MEP Clara Ponsatí returns to Spain without turning herself in to the authorities

She could be detained by the order issued by the Supreme Court against her for disobedience

MADRID/BRUSSELS, 28 (EUROPA PRESS) - The Junts MEP Clara Ponsatí returned to Spain this Tuesday without intending to surrender to the Supreme Court (TS), which on January 12 issued a new national arrest warrant against her for an alleged crime of disobedience, for which she risks being arrested to bring her to justice, according to legal sources consulted by Europa Press.

As confirmed by sources close to Ponsatí, she has arrived in Catalonia after living five years between Scotland and Belgium after an illegal referendum held on October 1, 2017 for which she is prosecuted.

Her defense trusts that she will not be detained by European parliamentary immunity, although at the same time her entourage assumes that she could be arrested.

In the order issued by the 'procés' instructor, Supreme Court magistrate Pablo Llarena, on January 12 to review his initial decisions in view of the latest penal reform, ratified the prosecution in absentia of Ponsatí but substituted the crime of sedition that was imputed to him by the one of disobedience, due to the repeal of the first illicit.

In addition, Llarena annulled the search and capture and imprisonment, as well as the previous national, European and international arrest warrants and issued a new national arrest warrant and made available against Ponsatí to take his statement.

Sources from the high court indicate that, if she does not appear voluntarily before the Supreme Court, she could be detained to be placed at the disposal of a court on duty in Barcelona and thus resolve her personal situation directly or bring it to the attention of Llarena so that it is the magistrate who decides. .

The sources consulted point out that, since the crime of disobedience does not carry a prison sentence, it is to be expected that, if arrested, she would be released with precautionary measures.

At this time, the situation of Ponsatí is the same as that of the former deputy of the CUP in Parliament Anna Gabriel. Also prosecuted for a crime of disobedience with a national arrest warrant for her to be made available to the TS to take her statement, she appeared on July 19 in the high court to regularize her situation.

After this movement, Llarena annulled the declaration of rebellion and the arrest and release order that weighed against Gabriel and summoned her for September 14, the day she went to testify to deny the disobedience. Shortly after, on September 21, the magistrate concluded her investigation against the former CUP deputy, leaving her one step away from the oral trial.