Parliament president pays €150,000 bail and expects to leave prison on Friday

The Catalan Parliament president, Carme Forcadell, paid the €150,000 bail on Friday morning and her defense expects her to leave prison at some point throughout the course of the day. Spain’s Supreme Court accepted the amount and her release should be within a matter of hours. The judge granted bail to her on Thursday evening but did not allow her to pay it right away after making the ruling public. Therefore, she had to spend last night held in custody, unlike her fellow members of the Parliament bureau.

Four of them were also granted a bail, but were given a week to pay for it. Lluís Corominas, Lluís Guinó, Anna Simó and Ramona Barrufet will have a week to pay €25,000 each, so they will only be imprisoned if they fail to do so by next Thursday. There was uncertainty over the cautionary measures against Joan Josep Nuet, the only bureau member against independence but also accused because he voted in favor of allowing the vote on the declaration of independence to take place. In the end, the judge let him go free without any measures.