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Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has managed to flee Spain and is heading for Belgium, despite a large police presence and a warrant for his arrest, leading to recriminations among security officials who apologized on Friday. His plan is to continue working from the Belgian town of Waterloo, the secretary general of Puigdemont’s Together for Catalonia party (Junts per Catalunya, or Junts), Jordi Turull, told Catalan radio station RAC1. Puigdemont had been in Barcelona since Tuesday evening, he said. After giving a brief speech, Puigdemont managed to flee despite a large contingent o…

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