(ANSA) - MADRID, OCTOBER 27 - The Catalan police arrested the independence politician Josep Costa, former vice president of the regional Parliament of Catalonia: this is reported by La Vanguardia and other Iberian media, which explain that Costa is under investigation for obedience and did not appear in court last September to make statements to the judge who is carrying out the investigation. The news of the arrest was also confirmed by the current president of the Catalan Parliament, Laura Borràs.
Costa, who is part of Junts for Catalunya (the party of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont) is accused of allowing resolutions to be discussed in Parliament in favor of Catalonia's self-determination and contestation of the Spanish monarchy not authorized by the Constitutional Court. (HANDLE).
