EU-Italian - Spanish Relations: Catalan exile Puigdemont freed by Italian court on the Island of Sardinia

An Italian court has ordered the ex-president of Spain's Catalonia region to be freed following his arrest in Sardinia, his lawyer said.

Carles Puigdemont is free to leave the island but must return for a hearing in October.

He was arrested on a Spanish arrest warrant on Thursday.

Read more at: Catalan exile Puigdemont freed by Italian court - BBC News

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