Catalonia News
Hundreds of police, including from anti-terrorism units, have been deployed around the Supreme Court building in central Madrid.
German police on Sunday arrested Catalonia`s former president Carles Puigdemont.
Guardiola has said he wears a yellow ribbon to support imprisoned pro-independence politicians in his native Catalonia.
Barca's all-time top scorer signed the contract in November, seven months before his old deal expired. It runs until June 2021 and contains a 700 million euro ($843 million) buy-out clause.
Barca and Real will face off in Madrid on Saturday lunchtime just over 36 hours after polls will close in local elections in Catalonia, which were called over the crisis caused by the region's drive for independence.
Police in Spain shot and injured an unarmed Frenchman on Saturday at a toll station near the French border, who officers said was shouting `Allahu akbar`.
The speaker of Catalonia`s Parliament, who had presided over votes to allow a separatist referendum and the region`s declaration of independence from the rest of Spain, left jail on Friday after raising bail as stipulated by a Supreme Court judge who set paying a financial bond as a condition for her release.
A Spanish judge on Thursday freed on bail the Catalan parliament`s speaker and four lawmakers while authorities continue to investigate their roles in Catalonia`s banned independence drive.
Carles Puigdemont`s exile in Brussels is proving a stiff test for Belgium.
Catalonia`s sacked separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Monday denounced Spain as an undemocratic country that "unjustly" jailed his colleagues, his first reaction since he was freed on bail in Belgium.
Puigdemont and four of his former ministers turned themselves into Belgian Police yesterday and they were released around 15 hours later.
Catalonia`s sacked separatist leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his former ministers turned themselves into Belgian police on Sunday after Spain issued a warrant for their arrest.
Catalonia`s separatist ERC party, whose leader is in custody, would win December regional elections but the independence coalition as a whole could lose its absolute majority in parliament, according to opinion polls published Sunday.
Loud cries of "freedom" also rang around Europe's largest stadium sporadically throughout the 90 minutes.
A judge in Madrid on Thursday ordered ministers of Catalonia`s deposed government to be held in jail pending further probes into their role in the regional government`s quest for independence, prompting calls for protests in Barcelona and other cities.
Carles Puigdemont will ignore a court order to return to Spain to answer charges over the region`s push for independence.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Tuesday that Carles Puigdemont would be "treated like any other European citizen".
The party of Catalonia's dismissed president Carles Puigdemont will run in a December regional election called by Spain's government.
The party of Catalonia's dismissed president Carles Puigdemont will run in a December regional election called by Spain's government.
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