Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Lluís Puig filed a complaint with the European Commission on Monday accusing Spain of flouting the bloc's amnesty law, after last week's Court of Justice of the European Union ruling validated the legislation. The trio claims Madrid is failing to apply EU law by withholding their amnesty and urges urgent Commission intervention because precautionary measures still weigh on them for more than €9.5 million.
The complaint targets a 20 July Court of Auditors ruling that opened a 10-day window for new submissions in the accounts case tied to the 2017 referendum instead of immediately granting amnesty. Defense lawyer Gonzalo Boye, who also petitioned the EU court for immediate enforcement, said the tribunal was effectively suspending the amnesty deadline through an unnecessary procedural step that the EU court had already deemed unnecessary. Chief prosecutor Manuel Martín-Granizo also called the move improper. The defense denies any EU funds financed independence-related spending and demands amnesty be declared within two months.