EP Plenary session - 
Statement by David SASSOLI, EP President on Decision of the Court of Justice on the Oriol JUNQUERAS case

Video. Junqueras immunity: European Parliament President calls on Spanish authorities to comply ruling

Oriol Junqueras, former Vice President of Catalonia, became a Member of the European Parliament as soon as he was elected – so says the EU's top court in Luxembourg. That means he enjoyed parliamentary immunity from that moment on, even if he was in pre-trial detention.