{"id":368461,"date":"2017-11-05T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368461"},"modified":"2017-11-05T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T13:09:06","slug":"ex-catalan-leader-hands-himself-in-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368461","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Catalan leader hands himself in to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Catalonia&#8217;s deposed leader Carles Puigdemont and several former advisers have turned themselves in to Belgian police, say reports.<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish judge issued an EU warrant for his arrest on Friday. Mr Puigdemont has said he will not return to Spain unless he is guaranteed a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian prosecutors are due to hold a news conference on the case shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium after Madrid imposed direct rule on Catalonia following an independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p>He and four associates are wanted on charges of rebellion, sedition, misuse of public funds, disobedience and breach of trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalonia&#8217;s deposed leader Carles Puigdemont and several former advisers have turned themselves in to Belgian police, say reports. A Spanish judge issued an EU warrant for his arrest on Friday. Mr Puigdemont has said he will not return to Spain unless he is guaranteed a fair trial. Belgian prosecutors are due to hold a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2111,2112],"class_list":["post-368461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-catalan-leaders","tag-ex-catalan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}