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Catalonia: Prosecutor calls for government arrest

The Spanish prosecutor has asked the judges of the Adienca Nacional to decide on the preventive detention without bail of all members of the Catalan government with the exception of former minister Santi Villa who resigned the day before the declaration of independence

Catalonia: Prosecutor calls for government arrest

The Spanish prosecutor's office asked the judge of the Adiencia Nacional Carmen Lamela to decide the preventive detention without bail for all the members of the Catalan government accused of "rebellion", except for the former minister Santi Villa who had resigned the day before the declaration of independence, reports Tv3.

The dismissed Catalan vice president, Oriol Junqueras, was the first to arrive this morning at the Audiencia Nacional which summoned him together with the other former members of the 'Government' under investigation for "rebellion". La Vanguardia writes it.

Even the president of the Catalan parliament Carme Forcadell, accused of 'rebellion', has arrived at the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Madrid, where she is to be interrogated by a judge. In the headquarters of the Audiencia Nacional, a few tens of meters away, are already the members of the Government accused in a parallel case.

While the process of the Catalan judiciary proceeds, the president of the Govern Carles Puidgemont from Brussels he shows no signs of returning to his homeland and defines himself as a political exile.

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