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Several hundred pro-Catalan independence activists demonstrate in front of the Italian consulate in Barcelona to denounce the arrest of Carlos Puigdemont. The pro-independence MEP and former Catalan president was arrested in Sardinia and is awaiting a hearing which will decide his potential extradition to Spain, where he is still being prosecuted for his role in the 2017 secession attempt. IMAGES
Thousands of people, many carrying Catalan separatist flags, are demonstrating in Barcelona on Sunday after German police arrested Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. IMAGES
Catalan police raided FC Barcelona's main office in Camp Nou and carried out several arrests. Spain's Cadena Ser radio said one of those arrested was former club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, who resigned in October, along with CEO Oscar Grau and the club's head of legal services. But the police refused to confirm names, saying only "arrests are taking place" and adding that the operation was being run by officers from the financial crimes unit. IMAGES outside Camp Nou
Hundreds gather in Barcelona for a third night in support of Pablo Hasel, a Spanish rapper who was arrested after failing to turn himself in to start serving his nine-month sentence over tweets calling former king Juan Carlos I a mafia boss and accusing police of torturing and killing demonstrators and migrants. IMAGES of a protest in Barcelona
Catalonia is plunged into further uncertainty as the region's parliamentary speaker postpones a crucial vote to reappoint ousted separatist president Carles Puigdemont but vows to have him reinstated at a later date. Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the Generalitat, in Barcelona. IMAGES
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