22-01-2018 15:31 via krqe.com

Fugitive Puigdemont in Denmark, no Spanish warrant issued

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Spanish judge on Monday refused to ask Danish authorities to arrest ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who is in Copenhagen to attend a university debate and meet with some lawmakers.
Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena rejected the country’s prosecutor’s petition to issue a European arrest warrant, saying that Puigdemont was seeking to “provoke his arrest overseas.”
Puigdemont’s trip came nearly three months after he fled to B
Read more »