MEPs have overwhelmingly agreed to strip immunity from the former president of Spain s Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, and two of his associates.
Puigdemont fled to Belgium in October 2017, fearing arrest after holding an independence referendum for Catalonia that the Spanish courts and its government said was illegal. He was later elected as a Spanish MEP.
The vote on Monday evening stripped him and two other Catalan MEPs of their immunity from prosecution and could pave the for their extradition. That would risk reopening the scars of separatism in Spain.
Here s what you need to know about the situation and where things could go from here.