Satirical article saying Spanish riot police took cocaine lands editor in court

Police unions complain over story published by El Jueves magazine shortly after Catalonia referendum violence The editor of a satirical magazine is due to appear in court in Spain over a tongue-in-cheek article that suggested the riot police deployed to stop the Catalan independence vote had snorted the region's entire supply of cocaine. On 5 October, four days after the Catalan government's unilateral independence referendum was marred by police violence, El Jueves published a story entitled: "...