Catalan MPs appear before Spain's Supreme Court
The speaker of Catalonia’s parliament and five of its members have appeared before Spain’s Supreme Court in Madrid.
Carme Forcadell and the MPs arrived to pro and anti-independence protests on Thursday morning.
They face charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement of public funds over their role in Catalonia’s banned independence referendum last month.
Judges must decide whether to remand Forcadell and her colleagues in custody or free them under certain conditions while an investigation continues.
Deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, went into self-imposed exile in Belgium last week after Spain’s central government responded to his independence declaration by firing his administration, dissolving the Catalan parliament and calling regional elections for December.
He faces extradition, again on charges of rebellion and sedition.
Carme Forcadell and the MPs arrived to pro and anti-independence protests on Thursday morning.
They face charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement of public funds over their role in Catalonia’s banned independence referendum last month.
Judges must decide whether to remand Forcadell and her colleagues in custody or free them under certain conditions while an investigation continues.
Deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, went into self-imposed exile in Belgium last week after Spain’s central government responded to his independence declaration by firing his administration, dissolving the Catalan parliament and calling regional elections for December.
He faces extradition, again on charges of rebellion and sedition.
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