Catalonia crisis: Spain issues warrant for Puigdemont

BBC News ^ | 11/3/2017 | BBC

[Spiridon]

A Spanish judge has issued European Arrest Warrants for sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his allies who went to Belgium.....

Mr. Puigdemont has said he will not return to Spain unless he receives guarantees of a fair trial.

Belgium will "study" the warrant, a spokesman for the state prosecutor told AFP news agency.....

Thousands of protestors have gathered in Barcelona and other Catalan cities for a second night running calling for the release of the former officials detained on Thursday.

[Spiridon]

Nigel Farage, a big supporter of Donald J. Trump, has been making noise about the Spanish government's treatment of the Catalonia matter and its decision to arrest Catalan leaders as traitors and criminals for conducting the independence referendum last month.

[Paladin2]

Spain needs to invade Puerto Rico and take it over to compensate for the loss of Catalonia.

[butlerweave]

Spain is being forced by the EU to go after these guys because you can’t just leave the EU and get away with it . Youtube should have “Merkel finds out about” videos ,LOL

[Regulator]

Democracy in the EU.

Czechoslovakia split in two in what was called the Velvet Divorce. No EU trash involved.

Maybe the Beeg Men in Madrid could learn from that, but they want the cash from Barcelona too much.

[central_va]

Globalism wins this round.