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Catalans rally in support of separatist leaders
By EUobserver
Some 80,000 people demonstrated in Barcelona on Sunday in support of the Catalonia separatist leaders under investigation for organising a consultative independence referendum in 2014. Former leader Artur Mas, who was at the demonstration, faces a 10-year ban on holding office for "serious disobedience" and "malfeasance". The speaker of the region's parliament Carme Forcadell is also being investigated.