The former leader left a German prison in Neumuenster on bail on Friday, almost two weeks after his arrest, after the Schwesig state court in Germany decided the charge of rebellion did not warrant extradition because the accusation is not punishable under German law. “The time for dialogue has arrived,” Puigdemont told reporters outside the Neumuenster prison, after he walked free on a €75,000 (RM355,136) bail while judges mull whether to extradite him on a lesser charge of corruption. Asked if independence was the only solution for the conflict between Catalonia and the Spanish government, he said: “No.”

Instead he called on Madrid to reconsider his offer of dialogue, after German authorities dismissed two of the three grounds for their European Arrest Warrant (EWA) against him

“I hope the situation could help ... Spanish authorities understand that political measures are needed,” said Mr Puigdemont. In a major victory for Puigdemont, the upper state court in Schleswig-Holstein on Thursday dismissed Spain’s request to extradite Puigdemont on a rebellion charge over last October’s independence referendum, deemed illegal by Madrid. She said that if Spain could not prove the allegations of misuse of public funds, "then Mr Puigdemont will be a free man in a free country - namely in Germany". Even if he is extradited on the lesser charge, the German court's refusal to accept the rebellion charge means under European law Puigdemont cannot be prosecuted in Spain for the offence, which several Spanish law professors and rights groups have called extreme.
Puigdemont calls for the opening of dialogue with Spain.