Catalan leader demands Puigdemont’s ‘immediate release’

AFP :
Catalonia’s regional leader on Friday called for the “immediate release” of his exiled predecessor Carles Puigdemont, who was arrested in Italy the day before on charges linked to a failed Catalan independence bid.
“We demand the immediate release of Carles Puigdemont,” Pere Aragones told a news conference in Barcelona, saying he would travel to Sardinia to “stand by” the former leader who led a Catalan bid to break away from Spain in October 2017.