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Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday she is powerless to stop the extradition of a Catalan minister who fled to ­Scotland after the illegal referendum on ­independence from Spain.

A ­European arrest warrant was issued for Clara Ponsati on Friday. She was ­education minister when her ­government declared independence in October.

Ponsati fled to Brussels with ex-leader Carles ­Puigdemont, then returned to the University of St Andrews , where she works.

Sturgeon said: “It is well established that the Scottish Government support the right of the people of ­Catalonia to ­determine their own future and that we strongly oppose the Spanish Government’s decision to seek the arrest and ­imprisonment of independence­-supporting politicians.

“The fact our justice system is legally obliged to follow due process in the determination of extradition requests does not change those views.”

EX-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is being held by police in Germany after being stopped at the Danish border yesterday.