Puigdemont's bodyguards, on trial: "We have nothing to hide from anyone"
Gemma Liñán
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Tuesday saw the start of the trial of
Carles Puigdemont's bodyguards, who accompanied the exiled Catalan president on the European trip on which he was arrested. The two Mossos d'Esquadra police officers were in charge of the president’s security during his trip from Stockholm to Brussels on March 23rd, 2018.
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Two days later, German police arrested Puigdemont just after he had crossed the border from Denmark. Spanish public prosecutors are demanding three years' prison for the two officers for an offence of concealment. That is, they are accused of attempting to prevent the exiled Catalan president from facing justice. The two officers assert that just the opposite was true: their destination was the Belgiun prosecutors office.