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Spanish Spies Tracked Carles Puigdemont via Friend's Phone

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday March 28 2018, @03:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the friend's-phone-was-not-a-lifeline dept.

canopic jug writes:

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was tracked by Spain through fitting his group's car with a surveillance device as well as following the mobile phones of his companions. He was eventually captured in Germany on his way to Belgium from Finland.

Spanish intelligence agents had been tracking the movements of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont using the geolocation service on his friend's mobile phone before he was detained in Germany at the weekend, according to reports.

Puigdemont was detained under a European arrest warrant in the northern German province of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday morning as he journeyed by car from Helsinki to Brussels, where he has been living in self-imposed exile since Catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence last October.

From The Guardian: Spanish spies 'tracked Carles Puigdemont via friend's phone'

An international warrant for Puigdemont's arrest had been rescinded back in December but was revived for this occasion. Already back in September, the Internet Society issued a statement about the Spanish government's great efforts to outright censor online activities promoting or discussing the bid for Catalonian independence.

See also earlier SN stories:
Spain Moves Forward With Plan to Suspend Catalonia's Autonomy
Police and Voters Clash During Catalan Independence Referendum
Spain Trying to Stop Catalonia Independence Referendum

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:47AM (#659828)

    It is also going to force Germany to take more of a position on the issue,

    Germany's position is already quite clear, the 'Fourth Reich', already looking a bit shaky with the British Brexit, cannot afford to allow any more vassal states to rebel against their central control, an example will be made of these Catalan rebels by the Reich's Spanish quisling puppets (just remember, Spain was a fascist dictatorship up to 1975) pour encourager les autres around Europe who might be harbouring similar dissident ideas..
    Of course, Germany will not be seen to be overtly interfering in what is, after all, purely an internal criminal matter of another EU member state..now, where were we, ah yes 'The branch on the linden is leafy and green, The Rhine gives it's gold to the sea...'