• Catalan crisis: Barcelona-Real Madrid will not be played on October 26th
  • General strike in Catalonia: five marches and thousands of protesters expected in Barcelona
  • Catalonia: sentences for separatist leaders. 13 years in Junqueras

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18 October 2019The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, surrendered to the Belgian authorities. According to La Vanguardia. In a statement, Puigdemont himself explained that he has decided to present himself voluntarily in connection with the new international arrest order of the Spanish Supreme Court. Puigdemont rejects the arrest warrant and opposes "any attempt" to send him back to Spain.

Meanwhile, the wave of protests that for five days has created tensions throughout Catalonia after the 13-year sentence of Oriol Junqueras and other leaders of the secessionist political formation Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya has not stopped. On the day of the general strike, called for today October 18, groups of independent protesters blocked several roads, also closing the one with the French border. But the ranks of Protestants will tend to swell due to the arrival of columns of other supporters of the independent cause arriving from the rest of the region and which will concentrate on Barcelona.