German police on Sunday (25 March) detained former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on a European arrest warrant from Spain.
The ex-Catalan leader is set to appear before a German judge later on Monday. He faces decades in jail in Spain following charges of sedition and rebellion by the Madrid government.
Puigemont's arrest on Sunday sparked widespread protests back in Barcelona, his home base, where crowds gathered in s...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.