INDEPENDENCE CLAMPDOWN
Former Catalan government member given bail in Scotland
Madrid/Edinburgh — A former member of the Catalan government that tried to declare independence from Spain turned herself in to Scottish police after a judge in Madrid ordered her detention on a European warrant. Clara Ponsati, head of education policy in Carles Puigdemont’s government, handed herself in at an Edinburgh police station on Wednesday morning. She was later granted bail at the Sheriff Court and told to surrender her passport. German highway police detained Puigdemont on Sunday as he attempted to drive from Finland to Belgium and he is now being held in jail on remand while a judge considers Spain’s request to return him to Madrid to face prosecution for rebellion. The bid to bring Puigdemont and Ponsati, an economics professor in Scotland, back to Spain means the legal crackdown on Catalonia’s secession drive is now being played out on a European stage. Puigdemont’s arrest on Sunday sparked a riot in Barcelona that resulted in about 100 people seeking medical attention ...
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