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FILE: Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont attends a meeting with lawmakers from his party, Junts per Catalunya, in Berlin, Germany.

Video. Puigdemont welcomes Spain's amnesty but warns it is not the solution for Catalonia

Updated: 07/10/2026 - 7:34 GMT+2

The Catalan pro-independence leader, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Waterloo for nine years, hailed the Supreme Court's move to lift his arrest warrant over alleged embezzlement linked to the 'procés'.

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