Carles Puigdemont Is Arrested in Germany, Drawing E.U. Giant Into Catalan Fight
By RAPHAEL MINDER MARCH 25, 2018
Carles Puigdemont, center, the former Catalan president, in Helsinki, Finland, this month. Credit Mauri Ratilainen/EPA, via Shutterstock
MADRID — Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia wanted in Spain on rebellion charges, was detained on Sunday in Germany on an international arrest warrant, in a move that drags Berlin into Spain’s festering territorial dispute.