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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont looks on as he talks to the press with his legal team at The Justice Palais in Brussels on October 29, 2019, after a hearing on a new European arrest warrant. The region of Catalonia comprising some 7.5 million people,remains sharply divided over independence, with a regional government survey last month showing 44 percent in favour of separating from Spain but 48.3 percent against. Protests on October 27, coincided with the two-year anniversary of the Catalan parliament's abortive declaration of independence that triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades, with Madrid suspending the region's autonomy, sacking its government and prosecuting its leaders. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)