BREAKING: Spanish media announce that the Spanish Civil Guard is carrying out an alleged operation against the Catalan civil disobedience platform Tsunami Democràtic. Over 20 raids and detentions of members and businessmen with links to ERC and JxCat are taking place now.

BREAKING: Former politicians David Madí and Xavier Vendrell and editor Oriol Soler have been arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard in an operation against the civil disobedience platform Tsunami Democràtic and the Catalan pro-independence movement.

BREAKING: Josep Lluís Alay has also been arrested in today's Civil Guard's operation against Tsunami Democràtic and the pro-independence movement.

UPDATE: The Civil Guard operation underway is for alleged crimes of embezzlement and money laundering at the request of a court in Barcelona.

Sources don't confirm if this is related to an investigation about the civil disobedience platform Tsunami Democràtic.

An important reminder for those who don't know what has been happening in Catalonia in the last few years is that many police operations against the pro-independence movement have proven to be mere fabrications.

UPDATE: The Spanish Civil Guard continues carrying out several raids in different locations across Catalonia in what appears to be an operation against the Catalan pro-independence movement.

BREAKING: Xavier Vinyals, Roc Aguilera and Pilar Contreras have also been arrested by the Spanish Civil Guard in this morning's operation against the pro-independence movement.

UPDATE: Raids in several locations across the country are still underway.

UPDATE: Historian Josep Lluís Alay, head of the office of former president Puigdemont, is released with charges.

UPDATE: Here are some of the pro-independence supporters arrested and investigated by the Spanish Civil Guard: Madí, Soler, Vendrell, Xavier Vinyals, Toni Fuster, Roc Aguilera, Pilar Contreras, Marta Molina, Jordi Mir and Jordi Serra.

BREAKING/SURREAL: Oriol Soler, arrested today by the Spanish Civil Guard in an operation against the Catalan pro-independence movement, is accused by a judge of conspiring with Eduard Snowden, Julian Assange, Russia Today and Sputnik against Spain.

The judge believes he has participated in a campaign of destabilization and misinformation with Russian participation.