Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont detained in Germany
2018-03-26 10:02:21 source：The Washington Post
March 25, 2018
BERLIN — Authorities in Germany detained former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on Sunday after he crossed into the country from Denmark, setting up a possible extradition of the separatist leader to Spain.
Puigdemont’s attorney announced the detention on Twitter and said his client had been taken to a police station. German police confirmed in a statement that Puigdemont had been taken into custody at 11:19 a.m. Sunday by highway patrol officers in Schleswig-Holstein, a state that borders Denmark.
German deputy state prosecutor Ralph Doepper, who is based in the northern town of Schleswig, told news media that Puigdemont would appear in court Monday for a procedural hearing and that a higher regional court would decide later whether to keep him in custody pending a Spanish extradition request.
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