“It’s the people who fuel separatism and they can’t put us all in jail. There will be other Puigdemonts”
Puigdemont
Separatist activists reacted to the news by calling for mobilisation and street protests
The independence push has brought on Spain's worst political crisis since a failed military coup in 1981
Puigdemont said "any declaration of independence would be suspended until a solution could be agreed"