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		</div><p>A Spanish judge has ordered police to search a printer’s shop and two offices of a regional newspaper in Catalonia as part of an investigation into alleged preparations for what Spanish courts have deemed is an illegal referendum on independence for the region.</p>
<p>A Barcelona-based court said on Saturday that the police searches took place on Friday in the towns of Valls and Constanti in southern Catalonia.</p>
<p>The court said the searches formed part of an investigation into possible disobedience, prevarication and the embezzlement of public funds by Catalan officials.</p>
<p>The regional Catalan newspaper El Vallenc reported that &#8220;four agents of the Civil Guard entered our newspaper&#8221;.</p>
<p>El Vallenc said &#8220;the search took place hours after they had searched the Indugraf business&#8221;.</p>
<p>Indugraf is a printer in Constanti.</p>
<p>Catalonia’s president Carles Puigdemont, the regional politician leading the push for independence, said on Twitter that police were not &#8220;looking for ballots, they were looking for a fight&#8221;.</p>
<p>The court did not say what police were looking for in the searches.</p>
<p>Media speculation is that the printer and the newspaper could be connected to plans by the regional government to prepare for the independence referendum.</p>
<p>Spain’s constitutional court has suspended laws passed by the Catalan parliament this week to call for an independence referendum on October 1.</p>
<p>State prosecutors have also targeted Mr Puigdemont and other members of his government with lawsuits for possible disobedience, abuse of power and embezzlement charges.</p>
<p>The pro-independence coalition ruling Catalonia said the vote will be binding and says if the &#8220;yes&#8221; side wins it will lead to the independence from Spain by October 3 no matter what the turnout.</p>
<p>Spain’s constitutional court has previously ruled that only the national government is allowed to call a referendum on secession and that all Spaniards in the country must have a vote when it comes to sovereignty.</p>
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