Ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont due in court in Italy for Spain extradition bid

Carles Puigdemont (Niall Carson/PA)

A former Catalan leader sought by Spain for a failed secession bid is due in court to argue against extradition, a day after Italian police detained him in Sardinia, an Italian island with strong Catalan cultural roots and its own independence movement.

Police on Thursday night transferred Carles Puigdemont to a jail in the city of Sassari after he was detained at the airport in Alghero on an international warrant.