Prosecution calls for pro-independence MEP Ponsatí to testify before Supreme Court

Prosecutors have called on Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena to summon pro-independence MEP Clara Ponsatí again to testify in court.

After returning to Barcelona for the first time in five years on March 28, Ponsatí was arrested after doing a press conference in the center of the Catalan capital for not voluntarily appearing before a judge upon arrival.

She returned despite there being an open warrant for her arrest for her role in the October 2017 independence referendum deemed illegal by Spain.

She was released a few hours later and informed that Judge Llarena had called on her to attend a hearing on April 24 at 11 am to notify her of her charges formally, but she failed to appear. 

The Junts MEP is only charged with disobedience, a non-jailable offense, thus the court released her.