Dutch police arrest suspect in Spanish politician’s shooting

20/6/2024 6:22

        Police in the Netherlands have arrested the suspected gunman in the shooting of a right-wing Spanish politician linked to an Iranian opposition group on a Madrid street last November, Spanish police said on Wednesday.
        
        The man, a Frenchman of Tunisian origin with a criminal record, is the sixth suspect to have been arrested during the investigation of the attempted murder, including one in Colombia.
        
        Alejo Vidal-Quadras, 79, who survived the attack, was shot in the face on a pavement in the wealthy neighbourhood of Salamanca in central Madrid in broad daylight on Nov. 9 by a gunman wearing a helmet and riding pillion on a motorbike. The bullet passed through his jaw.
        
        Vidal-Quadras is the former leader of the conservative People's Party in the Catalonia region and a founder of the far-right Vox party.