Police reinforcements to withdraw from Catalonia

Spain’s interior ministry says it is withdrawing thousands of police reinforcements who were deployed to Catalonia in the run-up to the disputed independence referendum in October.

Juan Ignacio Zoido, minister of the interior, said the estimated 5,000 reinforcements were no longer necessary following the return to normalcy after Spain seized control of the region following a declaration of independence by the Catalan parliament weeks after the referendum.