Van den Eynde on the CJEU: Gives hope that other countries will see "the repressive bias" to the independence movement

   BARCELONA, 31 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde, who defends the former vice president of the Government Oriol Junqueras, has assessed this Tuesday that the approach of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the sentence on the Euro-orders "maintains the hope that the courts of other countries continue to understand the repressive bias against the independence movement that the Spanish courts have".

He said it in a tweet collected by Europa Press and in reference to the fact that the CJEU has accepted the risk of violation of fundamental rights of a "specific group" of people as a possibility to deny a Euroorder.

Van den Eynde recalled that the case of former Minister Lluís Puig focused "on the need to overcome the requirement of proving a systemic defect to deny an OEDE" and also be able to deny it due to this risk to the rights of a group.

The lawyer stressed that the CJEU has accepted this approach "even against the opinion of the Advocate General, which is complicated."

This Tuesday, the CJUE has published the ruling on the preliminary rulings sent by the Supreme Court (TS) instructor Pablo Llarena in March 2021.

It has done so after the Belgian courts refused to hand over Puig on the grounds that the competent court to request his extradition was the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) and that, if he were handed over to Spain, fundamental rights such as the presumption of innocence.