BARCELONA (Reuters) - The pro-independence speaker of Catalonia's regional parliament Roger Torrent said on Tuesday that he had been the target of political espionage via phone tapping, accusing the Spanish government of being either complicit or negligent.
Tensions between Catalonia's separatist regional leaders and the Madrid government have been high for years, and a report in the Guardian and El Pais newspapers that Torrent's phone was tapped is unlikely to help.
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