Far-right Vox: 74 years for Catalan leaders
The far-right party VOX has requested prison sentences of 74 years for each former Catalan minister on trial for organising a referendum and declaring independence
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Spain busts gang led by 9/11 financier
Spanish police said Saturday they dismantled a gang that cloned credit cards led by an Algerian previously jailed for helping finance the 11 September 2001
Torra withdraws support of government
The Catalan president Quim Torra withdrew support from the Spanish government on Friday after the public prosecutor confirmed the accusations of rebellion against pro-independence leaders
Government defends Attorney General jail demands
The Spanish Government has defended as ‘professional, technical and juridical’ the decision of its Attorney General for asking between 7 and 12 years in jail
Puigdemont: ‘EU can’t be accomplice by staying silent’
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said on Friday that ‘Europe cannot be accomplice’ to the public prosecutor of Spain’s decision to ask request sentences for
Spanish PM ‘accomplice of repression,’ says Quim Torra
Quim Torra, the Catalan president, accused Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of being an ‘accomplice of repression’ after reacting to the proposed sentences by Spain’s
Prosecutors: ‘rebellion’, up to 25 years jail
Spain’s Public Prosecutor called Friday for Catalan independence leaders to be jailed for up to 25 years on charges of rebellion or misuse of public
Lledoners prison protest for jailed leaders
Thousands of people gathered outside Lledoners prison on Thursday evening to demand freedom for the nine incarcerated Catalan leaders. Around 15,000 protesters, according to the
Spanish artist defaces Franco tomb
A Spanish artist, Enrique Terneiro, painted a red dove and the slogan ‘For Freedom‘ on Francisco Franco’s tomb on Wednesday, at the vast mausoleum near Madrid where
Rolling in euskos: French Basques’ thriving currency
Nipping out to buy a cup of coffee or some bread? These days in France’s Basque region it may well be euskos, not euros, that