Ex-Catalan leader returns to Spain, vanishes again

BARCELONA, Spain - Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for ex-Catalonia leader and fugitive Carles Puigdemont, a celebrated campaigner for Catalan independence who made a sensational return to Spain and an equally sensational getaway from a speech in the city with the alleged help of local police officers.

The events took place nearly seven years after Puigdemont fled Spain after a failed independe