Catalan ex-president visits German prison, donates books

BERLIN (AP) — The former president of Spain’s Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, has returned to a German prison where he spent nearly two weeks last year to drop off a donation of books.
Puigdemont’s visit to the prison in Neumuenster on Monday came a year after he was arrested in Germany’s far north as he tried to drive from Finland to his base in Belgium. An attempt to extradite him to Spain, which he fled in 2017 after his regional government held an unauthorized re