Former Catalan President arrested in Germany.
Catalonia's ex-leader Carles Puigdemont has been confined by German police following up on an European capture warrant.
Mr Puigdemont, who is needed in Spain for subversion and defiance, was held crossing from Denmark while in transit to Belgium, his attorney said.
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Mr Puigdemont had been on a visit to Finland since Thursday.
He has been living in deliberate outcast in Belgium since Catalonia's parliament singularly proclaimed autonomy from Spain in October.
The charges of disobedience and rebellion that Mr Puigdemont faces in Spain could bring about 30 years in jail.
He slipped out of Finland on Friday before specialists could capture him.
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"The president was going to Belgium to put himself, as usual, at the transfer of Belgian equity," his representative Joan Maria Pique said.
German police said that Mr Puigdemont was kept by an interstate watch in the northern territory of Schleswig-Holstein, which fringes Denmark.
Pressures in Catalonia are high and its nonconformist pioneers relinquished plans to name another president following the capture of the most recent competitor, Jordi Turull, on Friday.
Hordes of dissidents had conflicted with police in Barcelona on Friday night after Spain's Supreme Court ruled 25 Catalan pioneers ought to be striven for resistance, theft or ignoring the state. Mr Turull was among five individuals arrested in recent arrests.
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The decisions were viewed as the most genuine test to date to the Catalan freedom development. Nearly the whole initiative now faces a noteworthy lawful battle.
Following the submission, the focal government in Madrid sacked the Catalan territorial government, forced direct manage and called new decisions yet expert freedom parties came back with a thin dominant part.
Worldwide warrants for Mr Puigdemont and other Catalan pioneers were pulled back in December by a Spanish judge, who said they had demonstrated an eagerness to come back to the nation.
The warrants were reactivated on Friday, astonishing Mr Puigdemont, who had been in Finland to give a college address.
Among those needed is Catalonia's previous training clergyman, Clara Ponsati. She is in Scotland, where she has a situation at the University of St Andrews.
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