A woman from the Netherlands has been extradited to Spain for the attempted murder of Vidal-Quadras.
The police consider her the mastermind and suggest that she facilitated the logistics of the attack.
BarcelonaPolice action in response to the shooting that wounded former Catalan PP president and Vox co-founder Aleix Vidal-Quadras in the face in November 2023. Spanish police officers from the Sirene office carried out this Wednesday in Madrid the handover of a woman detained in the Netherlands for her alleged the attempted assassination of the politicianThe woman was arrested in April 2024 and has been in the Netherlands ever since until the judicial authorities ordered her transfer to Spain.
According to the police force, the arrested woman, a Dutch national, had a European arrest warrant pending following the General Intelligence Commission's investigation into the attack. According to police sources consulted by ARA, she is the mastermind behind the attack and allegedly facilitated the logistics for its execution.
In June of last year the police The man considered the material author of the shooting has already been extradited, also from the Netherlands. Shot from a motorcycle, he then fled. The man had an international arrest warrant from the National Court and his arrest was the sixthwithin the framework of the investigation into the case. He was Mehrez Ayari, 37, a French citizen of Tunisian origin with multiple criminal records in France.
About two months ago, National Court judge Santiago Pedraz proposed trying eight people allegedly linked to the organized group that allegedly carried out the attack. All of this was reportedly commissioned by Iran, since, in Pedraz's words, Vidal-Quadras is "a leading European figure in the opposition to the Iranian regime."
Vidal-Quadras, who has recently reappeared in full political form, held a press conference in the Spanish capital last February in which he once again stated that he had "no doubt" that "it was the Iranian regime," against which he had been known to help the opposition. In fact, from the very beginning of the attempted assassination on November 9th two years ago, Vidal-Quadras accused Iran of the attempt to kill him, which he survived thanks to a "miracle" that saved him, among other things, because the bullet passed through his cheeks and a citizen from the rapid arrival of the ambulance.