German court extends Carles Puigdemont detention
Spain originally asked for Puigdemont's extradition from Belgium after he fled there in October, but later withdrew the request until Spanish Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena concluded his investigation last week.
Aside from Puigdemont, nine other Catalan separatist leaders are in jail in Spain over the region's failed bid for independence.
The ruling raised the stakes in Madrid's efforts to contain separatists in Catalonia, where a banned referendum backed independence past year.
The German Justice must decide whether to keep Puigdemont in custody until his extradition to Spain is decided. The state prosecutor's office has said the decision will likely not happen until after Easter.
His arrest came two days after Spain's supreme court issued global arrest warrants for 13 Catalan separatists including Puigdemont and his nominated successor Jordi Turull.
One of the leaders facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted, Marta Rovira, earlier said she had already fled Spain, joining five others in exile.
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He was stopped near Hamburg yesterday after crossing the border from Denmark, in an operation co-ordinated between the Spanish secret services and German police. Anti-riot police charged protesters with batons and demonstrators in some instances hurled objects at the officers, set up barricades and set dustbins on fire. His subsequent declaration of a Catalan republic received no worldwide recognition and provoked a takeover by Spain's central powers. The European Arrest Warrant aims to simplify and speed up extraditions between member states of the European Union.
On Friday, Madrid reactivated a European arrest warrant for Puigdemont for the crime of rebelion, which denotes rebellion against the state. The party's European spokesman in the Bundestag, Andrej Hunko, deplored his arrest - adding that in his view, rebellion was not an extraditable offence under the European Arrest Warrant. In the German government's Monday press conference in Berlin, an interior ministry spokesman said that it would be "very unusual" for a Spanish citizen to apply for political asylum in Germany. "The German government is convinced that a solution to the Catalonia conflict has to be found within Spain's legal and constitutional order", he said.
The crisis in the Spanish region of Catalonia intensified on Saturday as the parliament in Barcelona suspended a regional presidential election and Spanish authorities renewed requests for the arrests of exiled leaders.
In Germany, the arrest of Puigdemont has triggered a political debate.
In other words, it's up to the courts - a position to which the German government was hewing the day after Puigdemont's detention.
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