The president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, will this Sunday take part in a debate on Catalan independence at the International film festival on human rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, the organisers have announced today.
Puigdemont, currently in exile in Belgium, will travel to Switzerland for the festival's last day, they explain, specifically the showing of the film Catalogne: l’Espagne au bord de la crise de nerfs (Catalonia: Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) by Sylvain Louvet, Gary Grabli and Julie Peyrard. After the film, to start at 6pm, there will be a debate held on the question of self-detemination in Catalonia.
Former Swiss president
The debate will involve Micheline Calmy-Rey, president of the Swiss Confederation in 2007 and 2011 and the country's former foreign minister, among other figures to be announced.
The FIFDH will also organise a press conference taking advantage of Puigdemont's visit to Geneva. In exile in the Swiss city is former CUP deputy Anna Gabriel.
Since he arrived in Brussels, Puigdemont has only left Belgium once. On that occasion he travelled to the Danish capital, Copenhagen, to take part in a debate at the city's university.