Carles Puigdemont had just crossed into Germany when detained
Two months after he visited Denmark to take part in a debate event at the University of Copenhagen, the Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has been arrested at the Danish-German border by the German authorities.
Puigdemont, who had been in Finland over the weekend, was detained by German police as he tried to enter Germany through Denmark.
Puigdemont was on his way back to Belgium – where he has remained in exile after the Spanish authorities issued a warrant for his arrest last October in the wake of Catalonia’s vote for independence – which Spain declared to be illegal.