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FC Barcelona releases official statement regarding arrest of former president

FC Barcelona has released an official statement as a response to reports that the club’s offices were raided by local police and that ex-president Josep Maria Bartomeu, alongside several higher-ups, were arrested.

Regarding the entry and search by the Catalan Police force this morning at the Camp Nou offices by order of the Instructing Court number 13 in Barcelona, which is in charge of the case relating to the contacting of monitoring services on social networks, FC Barcelona have offered up their full collaboration to the legal and police authorities to help make clear facts which are subject to investigation.