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The vice-president of the European Parliament, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, denounced this afternoon the arrest of members of the Catalan government by Spanish authorities. The Civil Guard has this morning arrested thirteen high-ranking officials in an operation which unfolded across several government offices to collect evidence relating to the 1st October referendum.

Papadimoulis said, in a tweet in Catalan, that this act was "a very worrying path" and calls for "dialogue, not offensive acts". In a subsequent tweet, in English, he repeated this second message.