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Ex-Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont leaves Spain after avoiding arrest

Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain after seven years of self-imposed exile and addressed supporters in Barcelona before disappearing [Cesar Manso/AFP]

Catalonia’s former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has left for Belgium a day after briefly appearing at a rally in Barcelona and evading a massive manhunt and an arrest warrant in Spain.

Puigdemont’s lawyer Gonzalo Boye told Catalan radio on Friday that his client had fled abroad again without giving details.

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