The National Court will take over the investigation of the attack suffered on the 9th by the former president of the PP of Catalonia Alejo Vidal-Quadras in the Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid, when the judge understood Francisco de Jorge, that what happened could be a crime of attempted murder of a terrorist nature, reported a court specialized in terrorism and other crimes. The founder of the far-right party Vox He was injured in the face when he was shot and the projectile passed through his jaw. from side to side.
It will be the Central Investigative Court number 5, which was on duty last week when the attack occurred, which will take over the investigation. The victim herself and her surroundings pointed out to possible Iranian responsibility for the attack by his links with the opposition and the Iranian exile. His comment that ““he had no more enemies” coincides with the version of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) itself.with links for many years to Alejo Vidal-Quadras and 80% of the Vox campaign financer in the 2014 elections, who in their condemnation statement point out that Vidal-Quadras “was one of the first politicians” to whom which Tehran included on its terrorist list.
The investigation has been declared secret by the judge Francisco de Jorge, who replaces the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 5, Santiago Pedraz, who is on paternity leave. The magistrate, who considers that the facts could fall under the jurisdiction of the National Court as it involves a crime of attempted murder of a terrorist nature, is waiting for the Madrid investigative court to (Plaza de Castilla) that initially opened a case after receiving the police report, rule on the possible jurisdiction of the National Court.
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It so happens that Madrid’s trial courts open one in case of death, but in the case of injuries they need a police report or a hospital report to proceed with it and send them for distribution. Hence, in the case of what happened with Vidal-Quadras, it is still not clear which Madrid court has to rule on the request made by the Court.
Although the victim and his entourage pointed to Iran from the first moment, what happened was quickly used by far-right and pro-Kremlin sectors on social networks to refer to alleged authorship induced by the PSOE. From Vidal Quadras’ family circle they asked Vox followers not to pay attention to these messages and “no one takes the law into their own hands.”