Spanish court charges former Catalan police chief with sedition

The Spanish National Court has charged the former head of Catalonia's regional police and other security officials with sedition over their role in events leading to a banned referendum on independence from Spain.

Judge Carmen Lamela said in an indictment that Mossos d'Esquadra chief Josep Lluis Trapero was part of an organised plan to seek Catalonia's secession, which courts have forbidden as the Constitution says Spain is "indivisible".