Catalonia Independence: Spanish State Prosecutor says Catalan Leaders will be charged with rebellion

[brooklynite]

Source: Independent

Spain's state prosecutor has called for Catalonia's leaders to be charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds over their push for independence.

Attorney-General Jose Manuel Maza said he had filed two lawsuits seeking the prosecution of the ousted Catalan cabinet and the regional parliament amid mounting tensions following this month's referendum.

The independence vote, called illegal by judges in Madrid, triggered Spain's biggest constitutional crisis for decades.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy assumed direct control of the region on Friday, sacked its secessionist government and called a snap election for 21 December.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catalonia-independence-spain-catalan-leaders-charged-rebellion-sedition-missuse-public-funds-carles-a8027136.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Catalan leaders facing rebellion charges 'flee to Belgium'

Catalonia’s ousted president and several members of his deposed cabinet have fled to Belgium hours before Spain’s attorney general asked for charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds to be brought against them over their decision to declare independence last week.

Shortly after the possible charges were announced on Monday, Spanish media reported that Carles Puigdemont and five of his former ministers had driven to Marseilles and then caught a flight to Brussels. There was speculation they could be intending to set up a government in exile or claim asylum.
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Over the weekend, Belgium’s immigration minister suggested that Puigdemont could be offered asylum in the country. “It’s not unrealistic, looking at the current situation,” Theo Francken, a member of the Flemish separatist N-VA party, told the Flemish-language broadcaster VTM on Saturday.
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Paul Bekaert, who has represented members of the Basque separatist group Eta – whose long terror campaign claimed more than 800 lives – told VRT network that his client was “not in Belgium to specifically ask for political asylum. That is not decided yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/30/spanish-prosecutor-calls-for-rebellion-charges-against-catalan-leaders

[mpcamb]

2. Just one guy's opinion, but I think this is the Spanish Civil War replayed.

Catalonia was the resistance stronghold against Franco's forces and his Germans allies who practiced their bombing on fighters who sought independence from right-wing Fascists, monarchists and religious conservative Carlist in Spain.