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Sacked Catalan parliament speaker is freed on bail
9 years agoThe car transporting former speaker of Catalonia's dissolved regional parliament Carme Forcadell (back,R) leaves the Alcala Meco jail in Madrid on November 10, 2017. Carme Forcadell was released after supporters posted her 150,000-euro ($175,000) bail, ending her brief detention over the region's controversial independence drive. / AFP PHOTO / OSCAR DEL POZO
The sacked speaker of Catalonia's parliament left a prison near Madrid on Friday hours after supporters posted her bail of 150 000 euros ($175,000), ending her brief detention over the region's controversial independence drive.
