Carles Puigdemont at the European Parliament in Brussels in January 2017 | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images Catalan leader Puigdemont lands in Brussels Former regional president and Cabinet members may seek asylum, according to Spanish media.

Former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont is in Brussels, a European Parliament source told POLITICO Monday.

The same source said that Puigdemont will hold a press conference in Brussels around midday Tuesday.

Catalan government sources told local broadcaster TV3 Puigdemont was in a "discreet and secure place" in Brussels on Monday, the same day that Spain's attorney general filed charges against him for rebellion.

Puigdemont was in the Belgian capital with former members of his Cabinet to meet Flemish nationalist politicians and planned to seek asylum, according to Spanish broadcaster La Sexta. Belgian State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration Theo Francken on Saturday said Puigdemont could seek political asylum in Belgium.

The Catalan representation to the EU had no comment on the reports that Puigdemont was in Brussels. The Belgian prime minister's office and other Belgian officials also had no comment.

A spokesperson for the Flemish nationalist N-VA party, Joachim Pohlmann, told POLITICO that “in case Mr. Puigdemont is in Brussels, he’s certainly not here at the invitation of the N-VA.”

A European Commission spokesperson said the Commission was "not aware" of whether Puigdemont was in Brussels and that it had no meetings with him scheduled.

Fernando Martínez-Maíllo, general coordinator of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party, described Puigdemont's reported visit to Brussels as "desperation."

“Regarding Puigdemont’s visit to Brussels, which appears to be confirmed, it’s proof of the most absolute desperation," he said.

"Him going to Brussels, the headquarters of the European institutions, where one of the great values of the EU is the defense of the rule of law, the defense of legality, of constitutional values, it’s a contradiction in itself. He’d have been better to stay home.”

Laurens Cerulus, Diego Torres and Quentin Ariès contributed reporting.