Puigdemont said he doubted that he and his colleagues would get a “fair and independent hearing” and called for “scrutiny from abroad” to help bring the Catalan crisis to a political, rather than judicial, conclusion. We, the supporters of Catalan independence, have never opted for violence, on the contrary. “First, it is a judicial decision, and we have to wait for it,” he said. You solve it with dialogue.”The Spanish government has denied suggestions that the decision to jail the eight Catalan politicians was politically motivated. Last Friday, the education minister, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, pointed out the decision had been taken by a judge.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2017 14:32 UTC