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Catalonia’s top politicians held in jail while Puigdemont hangs on in Brussels

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The judge in the National Court in Spain dealing with the Catalan policial and constitutional crisis, Carmen Lamela, has accepted a request from the Spanish prosecutor’s office to order the ‘arrest without bail’ for eight of the nine former members of the Catalan regional government.

Only Santi Vila, who resigned a day before the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia was made, has avoided jail if he pays €50,000 in bail money.

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