Pujdemon will attend the hearing in Sardinia

Carles Puigdemon / Photo: EPA-EFE / PATRICK SEEGER

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemon has said he will be in Sardinia on October 4 to attend a European arrest warrant after being held in police custody in Italy for less than 24 hours. hours, transmits KOB.

A Sardinian court released Pujdemon on Friday, a day after Italian police arrested him on a European warrant issued by Spain while traveling to an Italian island to attend a Catalan folklore festival in the city of Alghero.

Spain asks Italy to extradite Pujdemon, who was head of the Catalan government at the time of Spain's independence vote in 2017 year, which the courts assessed as illegal.

- We will continue the fight. I will never ce "I'll give up and I'll continue to travel around Europe," Pudzdemon told press conference in Alghero, accompanied by the mayor.

- On Monday I will ce I'm back in Brussels, he added.

Pujdemon, who is in self-imposed exile in Belgium, praised Italy for resolving his case quickly.

- I am satisfied with the final result. Because our political and legal arguments ce proven, he said.

- The Italian judiciary needed only a few hours to make that decision, Pudjdemon stressed.

- Will ce I will return to the hearing on October 4 and if the Italian judiciary decides on my release, I will ce "I will return home to Belgium," he said.

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