BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for ex-Catalonia leader and fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and an equally sensational getaway from a speech in the city with the alleged help of a local police officer.
The events took place nearly seven years after Puigdemont fled Spain after a failed independence bid, with an outstanding arrest warrant pending against him.
Puigdemont had previously announced his intention to be in Spain on a day that Catalonia’s parliament is due to swear in a new president. The 61-year-old initially lived in Belgium after bolting from Spain in
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