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Description: Puigdemont "was arrested today at 11:19 am by Schleswig-Holstein's highway patrol force," a German police spokesman told AFP, adding that the detention was based on a European warrant. "He is now in police custody"

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# German Police Arrest Former Catalan Leader Puigdemont

German police on Sunday arrested Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, as he crossed over by car from Denmark, in the latest blow to the Spanish region’s independence movement.

Puigdemont's lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, said on Twitter that Puigdemont was picked up by German police as he was travelling back to Belgium where he has been living in self-imposed exile.

> 1. El president Carles Puigdemont ha estat retingut a Alemanya quan creuava la frontera des de Dinamarca, de camí cap a Bèlgica des de Finlàndia.

> — J. Alonso-Cuevillas (@JaumeAlonsoCuev) March 25, 2018

The news was confirmed, when a German police spokesman told AFP that Puigdemont "was arrested today at 11:19 am by Schleswig-Holstein's highway patrol force," adding that the detention was based on a European warrant. "He is now in police custody."

Puigdemont's party spokeswoman Anna Grabalosa also confirmed that he was detained on arrival in Germany from Denmark according to The Local. "It happened as he crossed the Danish-German border. He was treated well and all his lawyers are there. That is all I can say," she said.

Puigdemont was driving in Germany on Sunday morning, en route from Denmark, when police detained him on an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge. Puigdemont has been charged by Spain with "rebellion" and "sedition" over his failed independence bid for Catalonia. He had been visiting Finland since Thursday, but slipped out of the Nordic country before Finnish police could detain him.

Puigdemont has defied repeated requests to appear before the Spanish judge investigating his secessionist push, refusing to return to Spain from his self-imposed exile in Belgium. As the WSJ reminds us, Puigdemont fled in October to Brussels and had used the Belgian city as a base to travel around Europe to speak at conferences in a bid to drum up international support for an independent Catalonia. But he’s avoided returning to Spain, where judicial officials have said he would be arrested immediately.

The arrest paves the way for the extradition of Puigdemont back to Spain, which would cut short the plans of the former Catalan leader to remain in self-imposed exile to try to drum up international support for an independent Catalonia. Separatists were devastated that no country recognized their independence declaration in October and see international backing as essential to ensure a secessionist push in the future is more successful. But the separatist movement has lost momentum in recent months, with many of its leaders in self-imposed exile or in jail, pending the trial for rebellion. Puigdemont’s arrest is a merely the latest blow.

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gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:12 Permalink

I'm sorry.., but what were the charges again?

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So Close gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:12 Permalink

Can't vote your way to indepence. I guess they will have to revolt using firearms... oh wait... They can't bear arms.... Paints in sharp relief what is happening here in this country in regards to the current national conversation around the 2nd amendment.

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eforce So Close Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:21 Permalink

Americans act like the issue is firearms, most European nations have a shall-issue policy towards firearms, it's willpower that's lacking.

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tmosley eforce Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:25 Permalink

You don't need a permit to buy a gun in the US.

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Arnold tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:32 Permalink

Yet.

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DownWithYogaPants Arnold Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:42 Permalink

Since when does Germany arrest anyone crossing their border????

You can really see who rules Germany from this. Rapefugees ok. Upset the bankers 1 Europe stockyard and you get arrested.

Voltaire said look at who you are not allowed to criticize. That is who rules you. It's time to start the killing again unfortunately.

It is time for revolution. I hate to say it cause it will make all that fiat I have stored up for a rainy day worthless but then it will be soon anyway with these bankers having taken all the interest they are coming for the principle.

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sabaj49 DownWithYogaPants Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:56 Permalink

FASCISM AT ITS BEST

when corrupt politicians do bidding of LEFTY LOSERS LIKE FRANCO THUGS IN SPAIN

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JRobby sabaj49 Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:09 Permalink

Enemy of the EU/Globalist/Reich caught at border checkpoint. Is it 1936? No 2018.

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Hugh_Jorgan JRobby Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:19 Permalink

Yep. History can actually "repeat" when you begin to propagate a version of it that has been stripped of the lessons we SHOULD have learned from past mistakes.

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HenryHall Hugh_Jorgan Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:28 Permalink

>> Since when does Germany arrest anyone crossing their border????

Since they bought car numberplate scanners.

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Klassenfeind HenryHall Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:50 Permalink

You can always rely on Zee German Polizei to blindly "follow orders," whether to allow hundreds of thousands of 'rapefugees' into the country, or to 'protect' the border by arresting one individual.

Germans are gonna German...

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thisandthat Klassenfeind Sun, 03/25/2018 - 13:06 Permalink

Legally speaking, the eu warrant is mandatory, but being arrested doesn't mean he'll be extradited, just as he wasn't from Belgium.

Either way,...

"in the latest blow to the Spanish region’s independence movement."

I seriously doubt that; careful what you wish, and all that....

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directaction DownWithYogaPants Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:58 Permalink

Everyone, Catalonians included, knows that crying to others for help is not how revolutions are made and won. Revolutions are earned by force. However crying is all they're doing. Whining, complaining, peacefully protesting, shouting to the international media. It's pathetic.

Catalonia isn't the place it once was. It is awful now. Anyone who's been there lately has seen the many tens of thousands of black Africans crowding the sidewalks, selling their stolen goods on the streets and parks, jumping the turnstiles to take the trains, bullying people out of their way, casting ugly glares at passersby, demanding and receiving free everything, shoplifting with no fear of arrest. The police and public are frightened of them. These invaders are the new Sacred Cows of Catalonia and their numbers are increasing.

Spain isn't their enemy. Their enemy is liberalism.

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The Shodge directaction Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:27 Permalink

Yes, and don't forget it's actually the folks who want independence, who are all FOR the African invasion. Catalonia = California

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jcbudmo directaction Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:28 Permalink

+1000

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bahian directaction Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:07 Permalink

Parisians have been living with that for decades and many other cities in Europe. Even Melbourne has problems with African gangs/crime. One has to question his sanity (Puigdemont) for fleeing first to Brussels of all places. Maybe he is after martyrdom by staying in the EU/Shengenzone.

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pcrs DownWithYogaPants Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:38 Permalink

How did they know he was driving there? Do they continuously scan all number plates?

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CarthaginemDel… DownWithYogaPants Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:46 Permalink

Hang Merkel the fucking treasonous bitch!

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two hoots tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:38 Permalink

Brexit was the warning shot to the EU, Catalonia vote for independence would not be accepted. The EU will no longer allow or tolerate such future but legal discord, thus the masses will no longer have a legal means to challenge the neoreich, even if they believe it is for their own good. Control is established.

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cosmyccowboy tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:49 Permalink

do what???? i mean you could by one from joe blow at the back of the pool room but at any gun store you have to pass a background check and say pretty please massa sam to buy one!!!

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BarkingCat tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:19 Permalink

"You don't need a permit to buy a gun in the US."

You do if you live in one of the fascist shitholes like Massachusetts.

When I lived there there was a mandatory 2 year prison term for anyone who dared to own a firearm without the government's permission.

On major highways there were billboards that informed travelers of this law as one entered the commonwealth.

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dietrolldietroll eforce Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:46 Permalink

will power doesn't kill people

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dietrolldietroll eforce Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:47 Permalink

will power doesn't defend your land or person

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cosmyccowboy dietrolldietroll Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:51 Permalink

uhhhh ghandi defeated the british empire without one....

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Pure Evil cosmyccowboy Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:38 Permalink

Not all by his little own self.

He had to rally millions of others in India to join him.

It took nearly 90 years with the last approximate 25 years with Gandhi promoting nonviolence and civil disobedience.

But, there were plenty others calling for other means to achieve their ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement

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Blankone So Close Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:51 Permalink

They had a moment. They could have done it, they could have escalated things to the point were they found the firearms. But they chose the wrong leader, he was all verbage of dreams, he was not a man of force and righteous actions. He was not a man of independence but, like them, an acting out child defying the parent by throwing a tantrum in belief that is all it takes.

The moment is gone. Even the local police simply watched as federal type police assaulted those waiting to vote. There was no will to be found, they had none. Now the federal govt clamps down and punishes them. To regain the moment there must not only be violence but a greater amount than needed to push back the federal police initially. If they had made a stand, spilled blood when the federal police initially moved in, then the required combustion would have had a chance.

Not only is the moment gone, but who now would come forward to pick up the flag, make the commitment to risk their life/freedom, and trust these people to rise up behind them and join the fight?

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Whoa Dammit gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:13 Permalink

Merkel just can't resist sticking her big fat boot in everyone's face.

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TahoeBilly2012 Whoa Dammit Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:29 Permalink

Hitler's daughter?

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Pinot-Noir TahoeBilly2012 Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:58 Permalink

Q-anon has had quite a bit to say about her!!

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BarkingCat Pinot-Noir Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:26 Permalink

Saying Q-anon is like saying Pinot-Noir-Zerohedger.

It is Q. Just one fucking letter - "Q".

I don't understand why you fucking morons have to attach "annon" to it.

How are his post signed?

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tmosley gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:15 Permalink

Insurrection without weapons.

Really goes to show just what the EU is. It was never about Democracy. It was and is about power. Catalonia would be a nation today if they had taken up arms. But they didn't. They just voted, and the governments they rejected told them they didn't require their consent to rule them.

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Juggernaut x2 tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:27 Permalink

The "Trump Revolution" has not panned out too well for his white, conservative voters so now what? And the Dems will do exceptionally well in the midterms.

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Arnold Juggernaut x2 Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:34 Permalink

I hope future Juggernaut will be happy when they come for him.
Tell me, do you wear glasses?

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markar tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:38 Permalink

You've got it half right. But Catalunya never wanted to leave the EU--just Spain. The movement was ill-fated from the start.

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The Shodge markar Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:29 Permalink

Absolutely pathetic indeed, independent from Spain, but not independent of Spain's master...

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Mustahattu tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:47 Permalink

I’d like see a US state vote for independence. Then we’ll see if the US is all about democracy.

Personally couldn’t give two shits whether Catalonia is independent or not. As far as I know it was never a majority that wanted independence. Hopefully one day they can overcome if they really want it.

and it’s total bs to claim that if they had taken up arms they would be independent. They would have been smashed.

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OverTheHedge tmosley Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:25 Permalink

I know it is difficult, but please could you try to consider the idea that, even though there is no 2nd amendment anywhere else in the world, guns are still used and are available outside the US. You seem to think that, just because EU citizens don't have an automatic, inalienable right to bear arms, they are forbidden. There are guns bloody everywhere in Europe. I once parked a campervan (or RV, if you prefer), in a completely deserted bit of wood in France. 6am the next morning, I was surrounded by hundreds (and I am not exaggerating) of gaulois-smoking, brandy-sniftering Frenchmen, each armed with a dog and a rifle. After much chat and cognac, and a twenty cigerettes per man, they all headed up the hill with their dogs, and proceeded to shoot anything that moved. Three hours later they came back down the hill for more cigarettes and cognac.

Italy, Spain, Greece France are all big hunting nations, with lots of hunting weapons. The winter Olympics biathlon involves shooting - tricky to do without a gun, I think you will find. Germans seem to have lots of weapons, including hand-guns, god-knows-why.

All of the above is mostly irrelevant, because the vast majority of people don't want revolution, and don't want to kill people. Revolutions usually start with a push from outside, and lots of lovely weapons supplied from one of the major powers.

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cwsuisse gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:06 Permalink

No substantial charges are required in todays EU. It is sufficient to deny Mr. Rajoy the leadership over your country.

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holgerdanske gmrpeabody Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:15 Permalink

"I'm sorry.., but what were the charges again? "

That fool took "democracy" literally and for a fleeting moment expected to be heard.

How stupid can someone be in the EU.

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So Close Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:12 Permalink

Dupe post.

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Global Douche Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:14 Permalink

überscheißen!

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Son of Captain Nemo Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:14 Permalink

Fraulein(s) with Beer steins and schnitzel with spaetzle for dinner in that "prison cell"!....

Much like Julian Assange in the Ecuador "gilded cage"...

ALL FOR SHOW!!!

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DisorderlyConduct Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:14 Permalink

I guess it's not good enough to vote for freedom. Who'd a thunk..?

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Arnold DisorderlyConduct Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:35 Permalink

Or the delegitimization of Gay Marriage, in California.

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Herodotus Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:15 Permalink

This is what should happen to Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

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Global Douche Herodotus Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:19 Permalink

And... (tympani drumming) George Soros!

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adonisdemilo Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:18 Permalink

What would you expect.

Europhile wankers welcome any, and all, illegal rapefugees and other assorted criminals but when the guy who wants to free Catalonia from the EU hegemony and jackboot stupidity he gets arrested for crossing an open border.

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DisorderlyConduct adonisdemilo Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:21 Permalink

Funny how they can't seem to get a bead on the bunches of terrorists moving freely through the borders but they nick the fat white guy.

Heroes all. /s

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Commodore64 Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:19 Permalink

Smith got him.

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Herodotus Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:25 Permalink

Catalonia is the possession of King Felipe VI.

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