Catalan leader warns against guilty verdict in separatists' trial

MADRID - The head of Catalonia’s government said on Thursday that a guilty verdict for Catalan leaders on trial over their role in the region’s failed independence bid would further fuel separatists’ efforts to break away from Spain.

Catalonia’s independence drive has overshadowed Spanish politics for years, triggering Spain’s biggest crisis in decades in 2017, and helped bring about inconclusive national elections in April. They face years in jail - the prosecutor is seeking sentences of 7 to 25 years - over charges of rebellion, sedition and misappropriation of public funds for their role in a 2017 independence referendum banned by courts, and the short-lived independence declaration that followed.

Catalonia’s leaders defied a judicial ban by carrying out the referendum in 2017. The confrontation saw police wielding batons at crowds seeking to vote in the banned ballot and prompted the then-conservative to impose direct rule from Madrid on the region.

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