epa09487288 Former Catalan regional premier Carles Puigdemont in Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 25 September 2021. Catalan pro-independent leader and former regional President Carles Puigdemont was released from an arrest on Friday 24 September after he was arrested in the Italian island of Sardinia a day earlier in the evening, under a international warrant asked by Spanish authorities, four years after he run away from judicial authorities amid the inquiry of the illegal referendum held in Catalonia in 2017. EPA/GIANMARIO SIAS BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE