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Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has evaded Spanish police and is either back in France or Belgium, according to Puigdemont’s lawyer on Friday. “He informed me this morning that he is back at work, which means he is either back in his office in southern France, or back in his office and residence in Brussels, Waterloo,” said Puigdemont’s Belgian lawyer Simon Bekaert. Puigdemont, the former Catalan president and figurehead of the region’s independence movement, appeared in Barcelona on Thursday where he gave a speech before disappearing. He returned on the day that the Catalan parlia…

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