CATALONIA
At the time, Spain's National Police confirmed it with a tweet, but now
the Spanish government has changed its story and publicly denies that
Spanish police played a part in arresting Catalan president Carles
Puigdemont in Germany. The version, as widely reported three months ago,
was that an international cooperation unit of the Spanish police, in
coordination with the CNI - the Spanish intelligence service - had
worked together with Germany's Federal Office of Criminal Investigation
to arrest Carles Puigdemont on 25th March. But now the Spanish
authorities wash their hands of this and simply assert that "the German
authorities are sovereign to act in their territory to comply with an
European arrest warrant, taking the measures that they believe
pertinent."
