On Friday 3 November, the Greens/EFA at the European Parliament called on the Spanish judicial authorities to release the nine men and women Catalan politicians imprisoned on 2 November, calling their arrest ‘inappropriate.’
These provisional arrests will only lead to deterioration in the political conflict between the central government headed by Mariano Rajoy and the separatist parties, said Germany’s Ska Keller and Belgium’s Philippe Lamberts, the co-chairs of the Greens/EFA. ...