(26 Mar 2018) Catalonia's former President Carles Puigdemont was to be brought before a court in Germany on Monday for an initial hearing on whether he stays in custody.
The closed-doors hearing was to kick off an extradition process that could take weeks.
It comes amid heightened tensions in the Spanish region following Puigdemont's arrest on a European warrant on Sunday at a highway rest area south of the German-Danish border.
Tens of thousands protested late on Sunday in Barcelona and other Catalan towns, and some demonstrators clashed with riot police.
Spanish authorities accuse Puigdemont, 55, of rebellion and misuse of public funds in organising an unauthorised referendum on independence for Catalonia.
Prosecutors in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein wouldn't say where Monday's hearing would take place, and the timing also wasn't clear.
The hearing will entail the court formally establishing Puigdemont's identity and determining whether he is kept in custody on a preliminary basis, said a spokeswoman for prosecutors.
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