Clever, the manipulation of the principle of subsidiarity. Timeline :

1. Spanish judge reissues an existing European arrest warrant, while Puigdemont is travelling
   
2. Spanish intelligence inform the BKA (federal police)
   
3. Puigdemont is arrested by (federal? Land?) police
   
4. The The Chief Prosecutors Office of Schleswig-Holstein will decide this week to extradite him or not, with no appeal process, apparently.

Federal government claims it's nothing to do with them (no fingerprints?)

The only charge that seems admissible is that of embezzlement -- more precisely, spending provincial government funds in a manner which the central government disapproves of.

I wonder whether that is an offense in the Schleswig-Holstein statute book?


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